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- Subject: Re: CERT and the Dept. of Justice on keystroke monitoring
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.080120.811@ualr.edu>
- From: lindstrom@acs.harding.edu
- Date: 17 Dec 92 08:01:19 -0500
- Reply-To: lindstrom@acs.harding.edu
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- In article <1992Dec16.083322.6448@nntp.hut.fi>, jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec14.133030.804@ualr.edu>, lindstrom@acs writes:
- >>
- >>As for the phone, it is also for business. Sure, I use it for personal
- >>things (call my wife to find out what time to get home by) but if someone
- >>is making personal long distance calls, that's taking money from our
- >>already small budget and I want to know.
- >
- >A question: do you think it would be an invasion of privacy if someone
- >from the company / agency listened to your calls to your wife to make
- >sure they're really to your wife and not long-distance running up
- >costs or leaking confidential information?
- >
- If they feel the need, I have no problem with it. You see, I have nothing
- to hide. The most "they" could find out is that I am head-over-heels
- in love with my wife. Long distance calls can be flagged without listening
- in, and since I do all my industrial espionage at home (where they have
- no right to listen in without that warrant), they won't catch me giving
- away any secrets.
-
- >Threats, fear, uncertainty and doubt are often good and much-used
- >measures for this ;-). Or, in other words, peer pressure. Published
- >rules with input from users as well often are enough - most people are
- >reasonable, and when they know what the issues are there will be few
- >problems.
-
- Agreed. Nothing beats a healthy working enviroment.
-
- Greg
-