Study: Word Processor Keeps Keyboard Data

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

This is totally serious.  You should be aware that, for years now, just about every 
commercial word processing program on the market [1], and a number of the 
open source ones as well, have been intercepting your keystrokes, storing them, 
and even displaying them *on the screen*!

Email programs are even worse, since a number of them will actually send your 
keystrokes to someone else, *over the Internet*! [2]

[3]!!!!!





[1] Except for Word, which simply collates random data.
[2] Except for Outlook, which regularly deletes all stored data.
[3] Yes, I am, of course, poking fun at the furor over the iPhone location data file.

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