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rewrap of the virtual keyboard doc

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[[!meta title="Type passwords securely on an untrusted computer"]]
[[!meta title="Using a virtual keyboard"]]
If an attacker had access to the computer you run Tails on, she might
have installed a piece of hardware that records every key which is
pressed on the keyboard: that's a keylogger. This kind of hardware is
quite common and known to have been already used.
When using Tails on a computer you have reasons to believe is
not trustworthy (e.g. when using a public computer in a library)
you might want to avoid everything you type, including passwords,
from being recorded by a hardware
[[!wikipedia Keystroke_logging desc="keylogger"]].
To prevent against giving such a device your password or encryption
passphrase, you might want to "type" them using the mouse on a virtual
keyboard displayed on screen.
passphrase, you might want to "type" them using the mouse (or any other
pointing device) on a virtual keyboard displayed on screen.
<a name="florence"></a>
<div class="icon">
[[!img florence.png link=no]]
<div class="text">
The *[Florence](http://florence.sourceforge.net/english.html)* virtual
keyboard starts automatically with Tails and is accessible by the
keyboard icon in the systray on the top right of the screen. It can be
used to safely enter passwords using the mouse when you suspect that
keyboard starts automatically with Tails
and is
[[accessible by the keyboard icon|first_steps/introduction_to_gnome_and_the_tails_desktop]]
in the systray on the top right of the screen.
</div>
</div>
It can be used to safely enter passwords using the mouse when you suspect that
a hardware keylogger may be present.
<div class="caution">
<strong>Note that there's no virtual keyboard in Tails Greeter
and therefore a hardware keylogger could get your persistent
volume passphrase and/or administration passwords. In the future,
we would like to [[!tails_ticket 5563 desc="add a virtual
keyboard to Tails Greeter"]].
</div>
wiki/src/doc/encryption_and_privacy/virtual_keyboard/florence.png

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