Definition: shoulder surfing: Slang for watching somebody type their password on their keyboard. In much the same way that hackers teach themselves to read upside-down (in order to read documents when seated in front of a desk), hackers can also practice watching people type on the keyboard. Analogy: Crooks often steal credit card numbers in the same way. They stand behind people in line and read their credit cards as they sit on the countertop during handling.
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Source: Hacking-Lexicon / Linux Dictionary V 0.16
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Author: Binh Nguyen linuxfilesystem(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)au
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