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From: Antti K
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:16:45 +0200
Subject: Clearer history exposition

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+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.
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