Guy spying on PCs at Kinko's caught

[conjur]

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Dude was capturing usernames/passwords on public terminals.

Fry him!

 

[ClueLis]

I'm surprised that this doen't happen more often.

 

[Viper GTS]

Who is stupid enough to use public PC's for things like that?

I use my work PC, but that's about as public as I'm willing to risk.

Viper GTS

 

[Jzero]

Fry him? Fry Kinko's for allowing public terminal users to install software. Cripes, you would think that's pretty fundamental (not to mention easy to implement).

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

Originally posted by: ClueLis
I'm surprised that this doen't happen more often.

 

[loup garou]

Bad juju, man!

*zing!*

 

[dman]

Agreed, Kinko's should have had restrictions on people being able to install software. Although I guess he could have bought those keyboard dongles that collect data as well... a little more obvious (risk to be caught) than a trojan but I doubt the employees at kinko's would notice.

 

[samgau]

People have to be careful... until somebody develops an authentication system that cannot be spoofed.... like fingerprint/voice recog/retina scanner... and that is affordable...

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: Jzero
Fry him? Fry Kinko's for allowing public terminal users to install software. Cripes, you would think that's pretty fundamental (not to mention easy to implement).

I wouldn't put much of the blame on Kinko's, but it would be a good security measure for them to use external cd drives and floppy drives you would think.

 

[JSClark]

Thats why I don't use public terminals... I use internet at home, and most of that is sucked up on Ars askign questions about programming..

 

[The Wildcard]

I am surprised nobody has done this before. I warn all of my friends about this when they use the computers in the library to check email and to also log onto ebay and paypal, lol.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: CPA

Originally posted by: Jzero
Fry him? Fry Kinko's for allowing public terminal users to install software. Cripes, you would think that's pretty fundamental (not to mention easy to implement).

I wouldn't put much of the blame on Kinko's, but it would be a good security measure for them to use external cd drives and floppy drives you would think.

It's very easy in Windows 2000 to restrict access to floppy and CD-ROM drives as well as restrict users from installing software using Group Policy. There's really no excuse for this not to be implemented. A few years ago, I might have agreed with you, but not any longer. The tools are in place and easy to use - they come prepackaged with the operating system.