1 [[!meta title="Using the virtual keyboard"]]
3 If you think that the computer that you are using is not trustworthy,
4 for example when using a public computer in a library, everything that
5 you type might be recorded by a hardware [[!wikipedia Keystroke_logging
9 class="application">Florence</span>](http://florence.sourceforge.net/english.html)
10 virtual keyboard to protect you against a hardware keylogger when typing
11 passwords and sensitive text. To display the virtual keyboard, click on
12 the keyboard icon in the notification area.
14 [[!img doc/first_steps/introduction_to_gnome_and_the_tails_desktop/florence.png link=no]]
18 There is [[!tails_ticket 5563 desc="currently"]] no virtual keyboard in
19 <span class="application">Tails Greeter</span>, so a hardware keylogger
20 could record your persistent volume passphrase or administration