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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. |