RE: two bogus messages to this list

[Jim Wise <jim@santafe.arch.columbia.edu>]

On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Mark M. Lacey wrote:

>> Even under NT, this DLL can be made to remain resident and trapping
>> Keystrokes, events, and window contents.
 
> This is (or was?) no problem under X Windows the last time I tried
> it (not recently), too.  In fact, you could monitor the keystrokes
> of any machine that you had access to remotely, as long as X was
> running.  All it took was a short little C program.  So what call
> is it on NT that you're talking about?

Only if the machines you are trapping from were silly enough to turn off
authentication.  This includes other users on the current machine trying
to trap from your display, BTW.

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