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two-sandwich | 1 month ago

Oh, I really believed this was some strange keylogger spyware. Maybe it is? I really can't tell. Either this was the hook to get people to install it, or the front to make it seem like a real thing when people find it and google "why is pawsense installed on my computer".

> Even while you use your other software, PawSense constantly monitors keyboard activity. PawSense analyzes keypress timings and combinations to distinguish cat typing from human typing.

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anonymous908213|1 month ago

On an OS like Windows, which does not have a granular permissions model for something like prompting the user to allow a program to hook keyboard input when not focused, literally any binary you run could be a keylogger. One that openly says it analyzes keypresses is not especially more of a security risk than any other binary, which can do all the same things even if they do not announce on their webpage that they do.