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- From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
- Subject: Re: CERT and the Dept. of Justice on keystroke monitoring
- Message-ID: <b+arapg@dixie.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 11:05:53 GMT
- Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access. The Mouth of the South.
- References: <j50qd7f@dixie.com> <1992Dec15.230407.17896@sun44.synercom.hounix.org>
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- mattair@sun44.synercom.hounix.org (Charles Mattair) writes:
-
- >God protect us. A furriner casting vile aspersions as to the freedoms we
- >all know we have. Us - the most open, most free of the societies mostly
- >located in the middle of the North American continent.
-
- And as typical of many "furriners" who meddle in US affairs, he either
- does not understand or deliberately ignores the concept of private
- property rights.
-
- >Assuming John practices what he preaches, 'twill be a cold day in Hell before
- >I use the facilities he wastes five lines of .sig to advertise.
-
- Your loss.
-
- >I think the real point here is there is no differentiation between authorized
- >and unauthorized user's. I would suspect keystroke monitoring of a paid
- >account on a nixpub site such as dixie.com appears to be would be a
- >violation of the contract. As Mr De Armond points out in a previous post,
-
- Actually I'd hope any responsable public access site's contract would
- specifically address the issue of monitoring and recognize the site
- admin's right to monitor. Mine certainly does.
-
- >I, grudgingly, agree with this although it evidences a rather feudalistic
- >view of his serfs, excuse me, employees. Disgruntled employees can
- >do considerable damage to an organization and unfortunately for management,
- >faster than you can fire them.
-
- >P.S. Would you really really would allow one of your employees to bring
- >his/her own iron to work.
-
- In *my* company, I'd not care either way but some others might. The
- point is, it is the owner of the resource's right to set the rules
- anyway he so chooses.
-
- John
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