How to enter passwords in a shared environment

All you find here is just an English abstract.
This subject is more extensively dealt with in Italian.

Entering passwords and sensitive data into computers run at internet-cafés, hotels, libraries,… is highly unsafe as these systems are often set to log anything you type on your keyboard. Moreover, such kind of internet connetions are particularly easy to sniff…

A few steps for you in order to minimize the risk

• Avoid entering serious data: no matter what these data are, avoid entering them. In case you must skip this first point, try the others at least.
• Check that your connection is encrypted (https://...) as you enter login data.
  In case you connection is not encrypted, you’d better refrain from entering passwords at all, no matter how. Read more on the subject.
• Shuffle letters or blocks as you type your passwords in.
  Example: if your password is  donaldduck  try and type  duck  then move the cursor with your mouse at the beginning of the fiels and type  donald.
• Do not type but copy and paste letters and numbers from any other part of the screen into the password field.
• Use a virtual keyboard for entering at least part of your text. Virtual keyboards usually do not feed keyloggers.

Such an approach will keep you safe most of the time. There is no 100% solution, though.

Please read further (in Italian)…