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Sandy Sandy McMurray is a long-time technology journalist whose work has appeared in Time, the Globe & Mail, the Toronto Sun, Report on Business, Profit, and other sources. Between 1995 - 2002, Sandy wrote a weekly column about technology for the Toronto Sun, and served as Technology Editor for five Sun Media newspapers. He has been publishing on the Web since 1996.
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January 06, 2004

Shoulder surfing

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I learned a new phrase today during a presentation by Ottawa-based CryptoCard: shoulder surfing is when someone learns your password by looking over your shoulder.

After listening to their pitch about online security, I'm slightly more paranoid than I was an hour ago. But that might just be the coffee talking.

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