anko/xkbcat
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simple sudoless X11 keylogger
5 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2016-05-16 · latest 2024-10-29
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…each other, but this just isn't a thing that actually happens. A simple search leads me to this: https://github.com/anko/xkbcat There isn't a real attack using it yet , only because attacking Desktop Linux is a really unprofitable endeavor…
comment by orangeboats · 2024-10-29 · in Improving Xwayland window resizing -
…and the human readable names are called keysyms. Example of the XkbKeycodeToKeysym function in use: https://github.com/anko/xkbcat/blob/8abc3402cb679027a3bd0313... Keysyms don't necessarily strictly match "key location"; keyboards are…
comment by an_ko · 2023-12-24 · in Generals.io – Capture enemy generals to defeat them -
…zero explicit permission granting by the user. Here, the first result from DDGing "x11 keylogger": https://github.com/anko/xkbcat It is hard to believe this has not occurred in the wild. If such attack really hasn't occurred before in the…
comment by orangeboats · 2023-11-29 · in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Plans for Wayland and Xorg Server -
…them and their sandbox-analyzers. [1]: https://securityxploded.com/googlechromesecrets.php [2]: https://github.com/anko/xkbcat
comment by mockingbirdy · 2018-08-29 · in Zero-Day Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Leaked on Twitter -
If you only need a logger for X11, but want it to be layout-agnostic, I wrote one of those: https://github.com/anko/xkbcat It doesn't even need sudo, perhaps because X11 was written by hippies. :)
comment by an_ko · 2016-05-16 · in Show HN: keysniffer – Linux kernel module to log pressed keys in debugfs