From ff317aee140197e7c52f2f3f4db154d715503d19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Antti K Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:16:45 +0200 Subject: Clearer history exposition --- origin.markdown | 16 ---------------- 1 file changed, 16 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 origin.markdown (limited to 'origin.markdown') 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 -- cgit v1.3-2-g0d8e