OK, you got us. Now, we’re interested. In this Inky article yesterday, not only was it revealed that Larry Mendte was allegedly forwarding goss to directly to Dan Gross via Alycia Lane’s own email account — which we kind of suspected all along, and not for nothing, Dan, it never occurred to you that something might be rotten in Denmark? — but also this bit:

Officials were also troubled by the manner in which Mendte allegedly obtained Lane’s passwords. Sources say he secretly installed on her computer a keylogger device – an inch-long device that records every keystroke, revealing passwords.

Which got us to thinking: Obviously, Mendte was no real computer genius. Obviously. And neither are we! And neither are you! So what if, say, you wanted to spy on the jerkface two cubicles down? Easy peasy, bro! A quick Google of “keylogging device” introduces you to KeyGhost, the cute little plug-in at right. And all you need to make it work is seething hatred of another and 89 bones, clams or smackers or whatever it is you people call them. It’s frighteningly easy, and we are now officially predicting a Pet Rock-esque wave of KeyGhost Chic sweeping the city. To kick it all off, we’d like to announce that we just had these installed on all the computers at Philadelphia Weekly. Ha, made you look. Whatever, Failboat!

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 at 12:58 pm.