Keystroke monitor
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Definition 1: Stroking your girlfriend or wifes bottom gently with or without clothes on to send her to sleep so she stops talking. Then you look and monitor to see if its working.
Definition 2: Something IT and security guys/girls, neighbors, google, yahoo, MS and others do to either:
To check what your up to and use it against you at some point OR use it in a positive way for password recognition patterns to protect you.
Sometimes a keyboard [dongle] may be unobtrusively inserted between the keyboard and computer to capture all [keystrokes] including power-on passwords or sometimes they do this by the [back-door] method via email text or an image, video or CD gift. [Phreaking] can now also capture keystrokes from text.
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