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- From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,comp.security.misc,alt.privacy,alt.society.civil-liberty
- Subject: Re: Boycotting CERT because of the keystroke monitoring advisory?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.005425.3318@nntp.hut.fi>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 00:54:25 GMT
- References: <1993Jan4.212439.4278@nntp.hut.fi> <1ib0grINNhq3@early-bird.think.com> <1993Jan5.114722.5863@nntp.hut.fi> <1id4usINNap1@early-bird.think.com>
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- Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
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- In-Reply-To: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
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- In article <1id4usINNap1@early-bird.think.com>, barmar@think (Barry Margolin) writes:
- >That's a silly interpretation. The only purpose of the warning is to get
- >the people monitoring off the hook if the monitoree complains about
- >invasion of his privacy. Why would anyone who has no plans to monitor
- >keystrokes need to warn that they do?
-
- To reserve the right to monitor in case the need arises, for example.
-
- A recommendation that everyone should do this, if implemented, has the
- effect of "setting a trend" that monitoring is acceptable and a
- routine procedure. I think such a trend needs to be fought against.
-
- (The need for monitoring might arise for example in the case an
- amendment is made to the drug-free workplace requirements that every
- session and file needs to be grepped for the keywords "joint", "drug",
- "hash", "trip" and such and the matching sessions/files forwarded to
- the appropriate drug councelors and authorities.)
-
- //Jyrki
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