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| author |  Antti K | 2014-07-30 00:16:45 +0200 |
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| committer | Antti K | 2014-07-30 01:11:09 +0200 |
| commit | ff317aee140197e7c52f2f3f4db154d715503d19 (patch) | |
| tree | 05402fb8984a65bcfc54cc35fb107be7c52ecb1c | |
| parent | 0de608795c9506accd1b83d33f2bacdadcf03e56 (diff) | |
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Clearer history exposition
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diff --git a/history.markdown b/history.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1a7a659 --- /dev/null +++ b/history.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +This program is based Jon A. Maxwell "JAM" `jmaxwell@acm.vt.edu` 's discovery +that X11 keyboard state can be logged without superuser permissions. + +His program `xspy` is an X11 keylogger which output is squarely aimed at +human-readability, which makes it great for (as the name suggests) spying on +someone and quickly making out what they're doing. It has hence been included +in security-focused Linux distributions (BackTrack and BlackArch, at least). + +This is a complete rework of his idea, using a modern C version and with the +aim of producing machine-readable output better suitable for physical key press +statistics, deprioritising human parseability of the output. diff --git a/origin.markdown b/origin.markdown deleted file mode 100644 index 3220566..0000000 --- a/origin.markdown +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ -The `xspy` X11 keylogger was written, according to its source code comments, by -Jon A. Maxwell. The source was found [floating about on the web][1] on Jul -26th, 2014. The `xspy` program has been included in security-focused Linux -distributions (at least BackTrack and BlackArch) seemingly in the same -unchanged source form. - -According the comments, the program was written by Jon A. Maxwell (noted to -also be known as "JAM") with the email address `jmaxwell@acm.vt.edu`. The -author was not contactable. - -The code was rewritten to be more amenable to machine parsing and for -GNU-C11-compatibility by Antti Korpi `an@cyan.io`. To sufficiently distinguish -the completely different API and purpose, it was renamed. - - -[1]: https://www.eigenheimstrasse.de/~ben/keyspeedapplet/xspy.c |