Shoulder surfing, the act of reading information off the screen of a stranger’s computer or mobile phone without their permission, has reportedly become very common. Roughly 80% of Britons now admit to doing it:


The Web-User item notes that just 5% of people would be prepared to confront someone they suspected of being a shoulder surfer. Certainly there are few things more annoying than somebody looking over your shoulder while you're attempting to write a private e-mail.

However we do have a solution, it's called 'pencil to the eye'. For legal reasons we can neither elaborate nor recommend it =).