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The Recruit with Al Pacino and Colin Farrell question ?

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jazzhound

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For those who have seen it; you know the parts where they could view the last task performed simply by typing up a few keystrokes.

Basically our characters in this high intensed movie about espionage could see what the last person had been using on the computer simply by doing through the 'history' via some commands they typed through what seemed to be command prompt on windows. Now I know such a thing doesn't exist in windows, but is such a thing even possible ? Software or different OS. I found this highly intriguing and would like to setup a similiar monitoring system on my own machine(s).

Thanks
 
Originally posted by: jazzhound
For those who have seen it; you know the parts where they could view the last task performed simply by typing up a few keystrokes.

Basically our characters in this high intensed movie about espionage could see what the last person had been using on the computer simply by doing through the 'history' via some commands they typed through what seemed to be command prompt on windows. Now I know such a thing doesn't exist in windows, but is such a thing even possible ? Software or different OS. I found this highly intriguing and would like to setup a similiar monitoring system on my own machine(s).

Thanks
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I am confussled, you can't just "do that" in windows, but if you're looking for a keystroke monitor? they do exist, I get e-mails all the time trying to sell me them

"do you think your mate is cheating on you online, monitor keystrokes, log chat sessions, all without them knowing"

I have used one just to see, it was pretty cool, it managed to even capture passwords and such. The password thing might have been fixed in xp, but in 98 I know it seemed pretty unsecure.


 
On my first Unix shell account I could scroll back through the last 1000 commands I executed at the command line, not Windows, but somewhat related.
 
The entire movie was a strange mix of commands, operating systems and platforms.

I swear at one point one of the actors was using a mac yet using windows commands, and all of the code seemed to be win32 related.

Anyhow, I don't know of any way to let you see exactly what has happened last. I imagine that there is software that could track that, and infact, windows might even know what happened last, since it does keep a log of what programs are used, and how often.... or atleast XP and 2000 do. I'm not sure if you can get to that data though.
 
DOS, when using Doskey, had a command history, but your console windows doesn't retain the history across opening and closing. If you open a new console window, you don't get the history that you had before...

 
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