Thanks for your comments. In my case, all my passwords, etc. go via copy and paste, i.e. the clipboard (and hidden at that) rather than typing.

Having webforms in Firefox is irrelevant for live typing into comment fields and online writing tools.

I still think physical security of the machine is the most important aspect of security. If any malware or hacker has access to your machine, you are really not safe no matter what you do (even if you take the risk of an encrypted drive: encryption seriously complicates and compromises backup and often performance).

So while I understand why you think so, I have to disagree and insist that a good keylogger is an essential tool of the modern internet warrior.

http://firetech.cowfight.com/project

I found it via this forum thread…

http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-66450.html

You are very close to my original solution. I recommend Typinator as a far more bug free and reliable text expansion solution (I own licenses to both and started on TextExpander).

That said, what I am using now is BackTrack. It’s worth it to me in order to get really clean and well separated logs. If I ever run into performance issues with BackTrack I do have a backup solution in place.

“While TextExpander does indeed log keystrokes, these keystrokes are never saved or sent anywhere. Moreover, TextExpander empties its cache whenever you type the spacebar. Thus, TextExpander hardly ever remembers more than 20 characters of what you most recently typed. Using TextExpander does not compromise your privacy” (quote from FAQ)

I read the above & checked-out the Apps preferences. Unfortunately there seems no way to set it to “hold” onto keylogged information, but i’m not a programmer!

Do you think the textexpander product has the capabilities to be adapted into a keylogger ? I.e is it worth a “feature request” email to them.

Keybag looks like overpriced and poorly coded rubbish to me, based on protemac’s application portfolio and price list.

No way I’m leaving $10/seat BackTrack for $50 Keymac.

its Leopard/snow leopard compatible

whats your verdict?

Particularly the problems raised above (i.e. sending home private information about their clients)

I posted this on there forums: I really can’t see this app being useful to me as everytime i start a new line then keybag creates a new entry. To piece together a long facebook entry would be very time consuming. If you can address this then it may become a worthwhile product

But after 5 days I’m strting to think that its Not bad…reliable….. and I suppose Useable. The Trial has a 4 hour limit…but for me it Timed out once then seemed to just work permanently after that (so its working FREE for me)

nice!

I did mean BackTrack. I’ll fix that.

I’m surprised about your experience. Right now BackTrack Assistant is using 25 MB of real memory along with the standard 1 GB of virtual memory that most OS X applications seem to take.

If I open BackTrack itself the application takes 13.85 MB of real memory, along with the normal single GB of virtual memory. It takes no CPU when the application is running. Are you sure you had set the purge setting correctly? Perhaps you had turned purge off and the database size spiralled out of control?

BackTrack purge preferences

I find your comment about screen captures very strange as BackTrack doesn’t try to do screen captures. Unlike the rest of the rubbish in this sector of Mac software, BackTrack is not attempting to be spyware but rather provide a service to users seeking to restore lost text after an application or system crash. I’m using version 4.1.5 with Leopard. Version 5 for Snow Leopard rather recklessly includes screen captures which is the last thing I want from my keylogger. Screen capture is for spyware.

I find it very useful with browser editing. Browsers are fragile and do strange things with back buttons. If BackTrack is running one loses a limited amount.

Perhaps you were using another program and not BackTrack?