Simple Trick to Safer Logins in Internet Cafe

There are plenty of tools available on Internet which can do a very good job of monitoring and recording all the keystrokes on the system they are installed on. Such an activity can not only records every letter you type but can also help anyone steal password of your emails, banking accounts etc.

Follow this simple trick when you login from a shared system or a system in Internet Cafe for extra safety.

The trick is to enter random keys between successive keys of your password. Example could be, if your password is abcd and if we trick keylogger application to record ahduhbdhchuhdsshcdhuhd, it will be impossible for anyone to guess what your password is, from those random letters.

Step1: Open your URL for any of the email accounts such as gmail.com, yahoomail.com or hotmail.com

Step2: Click in the username box and type first letter of your usename, then click somewhere outside the username window, such that you lose the focus out of the username input box and type some random characters. Then click back in the username input box and type next letter of your username. Then click anywhere outside the box and type few random characters. Repeat this until you have typed your username.

Since keylogger and other such applications record each and every keystroke, they will not be able to differentiate your passwords with whatever you type.

Step3: Click in the password input box and follow the same steps as you did in Step2 to type your password.

Finally when you are done, a complete record of your typed keystrokes will look like this:

gmail.comasdrseranamjahuhauhhbfhuyhcuhuhhd

In the above line, we tried to open gmail.com and that’s there at the beginning, then we typed the username [raj] which’s also there, then you can see the password after the username. [We intentionally highlighted the actual characters from passwords for you to understand it. In reality it's just one line of text]

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