[Edinburger]

Yes, good luck to anyone in (a) an open-plan office or (b) an office with security cameras.

[mooism2]

Are the security cameras trained on the screen or the keyboard?

[eli]

Would you know?

[tezza]

And would you know if they just recorded the keys your fingers pressed?

I think Jakob is really onto something here.

[pygy]

They could record the sound of the keypresses too. They may be impossible to discriminate subjectively, but they all have a distinct signature...

[mgj]

Yep, see: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~zf/papers/keyboard-ccs05.pdf

[tokenadult]

"Of course, a truly skilled criminal can simply look at the keyboard and note which keys are being pressed. So, password masking doesn't even protect fully against snoopers.

"More importantly, there's usually nobody looking over your shoulder when you log in to a website."

[cruise02]

or c) at a coffee shop with wi-fi.

[ghshephard]

Different problem and solution. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer