Are you being watched online?

MSNBC.Com - Technology & Science ^ | 11/13/2003 | MSNBC.Com

[Bobby777]

Nov. 13 — Here’s a sobering thought: While you’re looking at your computer, it may be looking back at you. There is easy-to-get, even free, software that lets anybody spy on you, anytime you are on your computer.

LAST WEEK, KNTV and MSNBC.com examined online infidelity and found Internet temptation is quietly on the rise. It turns out, so is the prevalence of spy software designed to catch a cheating lover.

[P.O.E.]

Thanks for the links.

With commercial TV headed into the crapper, and with the "Do Not Call List" now making headway, I'd expect only more of the same intrusions on my PC from all fronts.

[longtermmemmory]

A key logger is an employers best friend.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I use similar software to keep tabs on my kids online activity. They are time limited on a system and their uses are limited as well. Even still, it's good to have them know that dad has a way to watch. It keeps their 'head in the game' so to speak.

[longtermmemmory]

Peer Guardian helps

Spybot helps


The want to target computer watching ads to you.

[1rudeboy]

Can ZoneAlarm be configured to block cookies? I've forgotten how.

[1rudeboy]

Sorry, my question is open to the forum.

[longtermmemmory]

Useful for employers for the same reasons. Employees should be working.

[HairOfTheDog]

The guy who started it forgave his wife and reconciled.

And I hope feels pretty lousy about ruining the marriage of two others.

He never even took a swing at the other guy.

I should hope not. The other guy wasn't cheating on him.

[longtermmemmory]

You can configure Windown explorer directly. You can also make it ask you each time a cookie wants to load and make a individual decision per cookie.

BUY a firewall. That will create a block to email captures. (Something every DNC website has) You may have given you email without knowing. Norton is pretty good, it blocks the unwanted cookies too.

[longtermmemmory]

No but the other guy was part of the problem. Telling the wife was a solid course of action.

As for the swing, I would say it is justifiable. It might give people with real cases court a reasonable trial date if we were reasonable about a huband beating the crap out of the man cheating with his wife.

I would never have stayed in that marriage. Such women treat marriage like an insurance policy.

BTW the internet cam can be used as a security cam too. It can take pictures as set intervals AND you can have more than one camera. (or you just set up a spare unconnected camera in plain sight and the "real" camera is out of sight)

[GatekeeperBookman]

It is not the cheating spouse we should fear.

http://crytpome.org

http://cryptome.org/cryptout.htm#Echelon

Far more awaits the curious. The gov no doubt logs visitors. But they 'log' everyone.

Check this one & be surprised about our gov knowledge of the Evil One. USA v. Bin Laden




| Search | + At Cryptome.org | ^ At Cartome.org | * At Natsios Young | Echelon | TEMPEST |
| Mirrors of Cryptome | USA v. Bin Laden | A Caution on Bots | Cryptome CD | USA v. Moussaoui |
| Documents Welcomed | Free To Travel | DIRT Files | Eyeball Series | Coast Guard Security Zones |
| AID-NIA Database | IC Black Actions Series | Mil Dead Iraq | Cryptome Archive CD |

"The War has many facets; http://aztlan.net/ Look at your enemy."

[GatekeeperBookman]

BTW-Cryptome is run by a Commie Anarchist-he is a bad fellow. I only look because he has compiled data & offers an insight of what the gov does do.

"The War has many facets; http://aztlan.net/ Look at your enemy."

[HairOfTheDog]

As for the swing, I would say it is justifiable

Yeah - but you think keystroke recorders for employers are justifiable too simply because they can.... When it comes to your right to know, for you, there doesn't seem to be much of a limit.

I wouldn't trust you, and you don't know what trust is.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Lurker]

Thanks.

L

[Bobby777]

LOL ... well, nothing is going to stop the ultimate professional hackers, etc. out there ... almost nothing ... but it's good to at least make it a little more difficult for the amatuers ... FWIW

[Mr. Mojo]

Ping

[Victoria Delsoul]

"Internet Spy is an amazing tool that will help you find just about anything about anyone. You can use it in the privacy of your own home without anyone ever knowing, ... Don't hire a private investigator. Do it yourself with Internet Spy."

Wow, that's just what con artists need, as this article points out:

At the sleazier end of the spectrum are silent hacker programs designed to work like wiretaps, stealing every credit card number and password a victim types.

[longtermmemmory]

Depends on the situation. Employees with sensitive areas are subject to scrutiny. If we get hit by a virus from an unauthorized download or disk, I want to be able to know we can find the cause even when the employee does not want to own up.

BTW cheating on your husband and wife is a different issue than whether or not an employer is allowed to use a logger. It is real simple, employees should not use company computers for checking their email. Get a blackberry or web enabled phone.

You would not trust me? Touched a nerve have we? In the old Novel networks the administrators could watch click for click what employees are doing, most still can. 9 to 5 what an employee does on company computers is up to the company. Their personal endevors can be done on their personal computers.

In other words, when having an extramarital affair online, do it at home not at work.

[HairOfTheDog]

It is real simple, employees should not use company computers for checking their email.

I have never worked for a company that did not allow a bit of personal business - checking in with family, making phone calls that can't be made after hours, life business - to be done during the work day. There is rarely a zero-tolerance on such things, and if there isn't a zero tolerance policy, an employer would be best to not eavesdrop with things such as keystroke trackers.

If the usage of the computer for other-than-business gets out of hand, it will show up in other ways. The affect on morale of feeling that big brother is watching and listening, is worse than a few emails.