>For the first link: here, you're either not actually reading or being blatantly dishonest.
Here is your quote written to represent the link: "Keyloggers are a type of monitoring software designed to record keystrokes made by a user."
Here is that quote with the surrounding sentences:
"Keystroke logging software is one of the oldest forms of malware, dating back to typewriters. It's still popular and often used as part of larger cyber attacks. Keyloggers are a type of monitoring software designed to record keystrokes made by a user. One of the oldest forms of cyber threat, these keystroke loggers record the information you type into a website or application and send to back to a third party."
Now again tell me who is dishonest?
> they also have legitimate uses
No one disputed that. Your claim is the most common use of the term is not related to malware. Focus on the "most common" phrase you claimed - not the exceptional cases you're obsessing over.
Seems pretty clear the common usage is for malware, from this link, to web samples, to wiki and oxford definitions, to nearly every one of your links.
>nobody, not myself, nor anyone else here, has suggested that keyloggers are not primarily used maliciously
Also you
> "the common meaning of keylogger is not restricted to malicious software"
?
The argument is not whether a program called a keylogger has other uses than malware. The argument is your claim that the most common usage of the term is not the criminal one.
And since you don't have a metric to base your claim "the common meaning of keylogger is not restricted to malicious software" on, you're right. We're done - your claim is nonsense and you cannot provide how you arrived (incorrectly) at what the common meaning is.
Here is your quote written to represent the link: "Keyloggers are a type of monitoring software designed to record keystrokes made by a user."
Here is that quote with the surrounding sentences:
"Keystroke logging software is one of the oldest forms of malware, dating back to typewriters. It's still popular and often used as part of larger cyber attacks. Keyloggers are a type of monitoring software designed to record keystrokes made by a user. One of the oldest forms of cyber threat, these keystroke loggers record the information you type into a website or application and send to back to a third party."
Now again tell me who is dishonest?
> they also have legitimate uses
No one disputed that. Your claim is the most common use of the term is not related to malware. Focus on the "most common" phrase you claimed - not the exceptional cases you're obsessing over.
Seems pretty clear the common usage is for malware, from this link, to web samples, to wiki and oxford definitions, to nearly every one of your links.
>nobody, not myself, nor anyone else here, has suggested that keyloggers are not primarily used maliciously
Also you
> "the common meaning of keylogger is not restricted to malicious software"
?
The argument is not whether a program called a keylogger has other uses than malware. The argument is your claim that the most common usage of the term is not the criminal one.
And since you don't have a metric to base your claim "the common meaning of keylogger is not restricted to malicious software" on, you're right. We're done - your claim is nonsense and you cannot provide how you arrived (incorrectly) at what the common meaning is.