How does BT know when "caps lock" is used? I thought the keyboard was secure.
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Well, the keyboard is…
However, what you type into it doesn’t stay in the keyboard. It ends up on the website you are typing into, of course.
I think to get a sensible answer you’ll need to explain the context of your question a bit more.
Any company needs to know when you input something into their site whether upper or lower case is used, or passwords would be a whole less secure, let alone any other input you put in like searches or composing an email - BT is not alone in this, every website operates in much the same way.
Thanks for the replies. This only happens with BT. If I change caps lock, before I send anything, BT knows of that change.
I wondered how they could know the setting was wrong beforehand.
Thanks.
It’s not just BT that warns users when they have their caps lock on during password entry. Any modern browser allows the website to fetch the state of the keyboard modifier keys. For example in JS it’s via getModifierState('CapsLock')
Steve
Hi, Thanks for the explanation. As this has only happened with the BT site I assumed there might be a problem.
Cheers.