Posted: 5/20/2005 1:30 AM
Post subject: Whatpulse
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Michael_Fried
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Joined: 3/8/2004
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http://whatpulse.org/ The nesvideos site should have a whatpulse team. Whatpulse is a program that counts all the times you press a key or click the mouse, and the site keeps track of all this data and has rankings for both individuals and for teams. Unfortunately I wouldn't be able to join since I already joined the Mario Kart team and you can't be on 2 teams at once.
Posted: 5/20/2005 12:49 PM
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Cazlab
Joined: 7/5/2004
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Location: Karlstad, Sweden
Nice :> Downloaded it now, seems cool this far :)
Posted: 5/20/2005 1:56 PM
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Boco
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...because obviously the best use of my computer time is running a keylogger that posts results to people I don't know on the internet...
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Posted: 5/20/2005 1:57 PM
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NrgSpoon
Joined: 6/14/2004
Posts: 646
Exactly what I was thinking. How do you know this thing isn't recording your passwords?
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Posted: 5/20/2005 7:27 PM
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Michael_Fried
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...because obviously the best use of my computer time is running a keylogger that posts results to people I don't know on the internet... You wouldn't be using a lot of computer time to run the program. After it's set up, it'll just take you a couple of seconds each day (or less often if you want) to submit your number of key presses and clicks to the site, and you don't even have to load it when you turn on your computer since there's an option to automatically load it on startup (and it loads quickly). It doesn't take up a lot of memory either, it's using about 5 KB of memory for me which is just about nothing compared to the several hundred MB that I have. All you have to do is download it, install it, register, and join a team if you want to, all of which would just take a few minutes. Then there's gonna be an icon in your tray, and when you double click it or right click it and click "Pulse!", it tells the site how many key presses and clicks you've done since your last pulse. Exactly what I was thinking. How do you know this thing isn't recording your passwords? It doesn't record what keys you pressed unless you turn on the keystroke frequency option, but that just records how many times you pressed each key and not the order. I don't see how it would keep track of what keys you press because none of the files in the whatpulse folder increase in size as you type more. There's a keyfreq BIN file that keeps track of how many times you pressed each key, which only increases in size if you have that option turned on, and otherwise it stays at 4 bytes. There's a pulses text file that keeps track of the date and time for each pulse and how many key presses and clicks were submitted with each pulse. Then there's the uninstall file that of course always stays the same size, a whatpulse BIN file that I don't know what it does but it stays at 880 bytes, and the executable file that you click on to run the program that always stays the same size. Even if by some chance they did have some way to secretly record all your button presses, which is very unlikely since no one wants to use hundreds of gigabytes of space to store useless information, there would be so many keypresses for them to look through that there's no way they would know when you typed your password.
Posted: 5/20/2005 8:37 PM
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OmnipotentEntity
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/\t(.{3,15})\n/g would be an quick, easy way to find probable passwords. I know I don't use my tab for much.
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