idea to stop keyloggers ...

[Tommy]

And what im saying is they can just try different answers.

[Drewar]

He isn't stating that it will type it out for you when you "tick" the box. With a keylogger, it records all keystrokes on your computer wether manually typed and also if it's pasted in from memory. What I believe he is saying is that a survery type box would appear with multiple choices to select the answer, this activity couldn't be captured with a keylogger because your mouse is selecting the boxes to "tick". It would be far too complicated and you would need to answer eg : 5/5 questions right in order to login. If the answers were never revealed unless you got all 5 right it would be hard to tell which ones you were getting wrong and it would take a long time to get all 5 right, somewhat similar to a combination lock.

Good idea, good use of braincells although it would be too complicated to implicate this type of system.


Techincally it would substantially slow them down to the point where they might give up. If it never did say 3/5 right and let you know which ones were wrong it would further complicate it for the person attempting to gain access.

(Most) Keyloggers record mousepoints aswell, so ticking of the box wouldn't be of much help unless everytime you reloaded the hotel or whatever the questions with the tickboxes were in different places set by random, because then you wouldn't have to worry about the person who keylogged you seeing it as it would be different when you reload.

[HolyWar]

And what im saying is they can just try different answers.

They would have to keep trying different answers, but they would also need to make sure that they answered 5 out of 5 correctly. The questions would have to consist of at least 5 possible answers for each of the 5 questions to answer.

Lol, it's already so complicated to try and explain that it just shows how hard and complicated that whole type of system would be. But it's a valid suggestion, just one that seems highly unlikely.

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(5)Budapest regional

5 questions similar to that and all 5 must be answered correctly, wouldn't be too easy to answer all 5 questions right but with brute forcing and other types of matematical elimination sequences you would eventually find the answer to all 5 questions simultaneously.

I've never heard of a keylogger that can systematically provide a location of where your mouse was pointed. How can it relay that information back to the user in a text format? Unless you have the person monitored with a slave such as remote administrator, but that is just the same as physically sitting in front of someones cpu.