Recently I’ve seen a post about “detecting” key presses, another way to call it “key logger”.
Now i tried something about screen capturing and such (i wanted to code a video stream into modulated audio, just for fun) … here i’m casting a portion of screen (youtube) into a mesh in rhino environment.
The two things together made me think…
What is the “security” level of grasshopper (and/or rhino)? If there is some at all…
Can, any internal script/code/plug-in, access to our WHOLE system?
What prevent some code to log keypresses, screen, cursor movements, reading files … and sending them in the web? Completely in background.
I don’t want to seem paranoid, maybe it’s just too late…
Key loggers don’t need a host application to run in - check for instance autohotkey, an app that captures input from anywhere, even though it isn’t the active application.
If you don’t know what the script does and/or don’t know where it comes from don’t run it. You have .net scripting you can do anything with the scripts.
I recently noticed that python IDEs like WingIDE also log what you do ever piece of code, every library accessed is logged in real-time. Supposedly to allow the app to make a better code suggestions.
I must remember to whoever will use this that i’m still learning c# … it might contain errors that might cause unknown further problems… I’m just clashing codes together.
Turn it on;
click “Set area” button and do 1 click for top-left corner and a second click for bottom right one;
optional visible rectangle
Outputs are:
A - mesh with X and Y sizes -1 of screen portion captured (each pixel become 1 vertex) , so pixel count and mesh quad faces count are different
B and C - sizes of the screen portion
Big Brother is watching youuuuuu!
It’s nice!
