Listen! This is really important and stunning in the brilliance of its simplicity.

Keystroke loggers are software programs that spy on your keyboard by tracking which keys you press and seding that stream over the inernet back to a data collection node. They are usually installed via a trojan horse in the form of some tempting free software or even free pornography.

There is only one way to protect yourself from this form of snooping and that is to bring your own keyboard with you whereever you use a computer. You need first to rotate all of the keycaps, gently prying them off and reattaching them to a random key postion. This has the effect of encoding what you are typing since the keystroke logging software can’t know what letters are printed on your keycaps now that you have mixed them all up.

It does take quite a long time to get familiar with your new scrambled keyboard, but perservere and you will eventually regain nearly your full former typing speed.

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