What will be your expressions if you get an email alert with a picture of the one who is trying to access your computer in your absence ? Your colleague, your friend, your relative or someone else who is close to you can make a few guesses to crack the password you have set up on your system. You can only minimize this risk by creating a strong password but you can never get rid of this risk. In such situations the most awful thing is that you will never know whether someone has done something with your computer or not, you always find yourself under an impression that someone might have tried using your computer in your absence.
Now the question is, How do you get notified when such an attempt is made to intrude into your computer? A brand new Turkish website http://mouselock.co/ has all the answers of your questions. The website immediately sends you an email with a photo of the person who is trying to use your computer. Lets see how it it works:-
The MouseLock requires you to sign-in with the Google account, once you are done they will send you the alert to your Gmail. After that you can select a secrete key on your screen, and in next step you have to put your mouse cursor in a designated area on the Mouse Lock website and leave the machine. As the Website name says “MouseLock”, they do the same thing; they lock your mouse in such a way that if someone moves it in your absence than he or she will be caught with a picture.
How does MouseLock detect the intruder and send you an email ? Well, the secrete PIN which has been created for you need to be entered in a specific period of time (within few seconds) whenever you or anyone else moves the mouse after a pause. Generally the intruder misses it and got trapped, the MouseLock reacts immediately and sends an email alert to your Gmail address. The alert will also include the intruder’s photo if you would have the webcam attached on your PC.
We know the fact that MouseLock cannot prevent him or her to go ahead, but still it notifies you with a picture the moment it happens. Talking about the plus points of MouseLock; being a web Application it doesn’t need to be installed.
Lets dive deeper and grab more details & learn minutiae of MouseLock:-Internally, the website uses jQuery (mouseLeaveEvent) to detect mouse movements while the webcam pictures are captured by using the getUserMedia API (currently supported in Chrome and Firefox). The site also has some drawbacks which make it a little less useful; drawbacks like the email alerts are sometimes triggered even when any of the keys are pressed. This may be due to a bug or something but it is surely a big downside of MouseLock because there’s no way to lock the computer after setting up the monitor.