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Keystroke Logger Faces Federal Wiretap Charges

securitas writes "In what prosecutors say is the first case of its kind, a former insurance claims manager was indicted on federal wiretapping charges for allegedly installing a keystroke logger on another employee's computer. The device was secretly installed 'on a PC used by a secretary to senior executives at Bristol West Insurance Group.' Reuters reports that the man, who had been fired, was gathering information for a class action lawsuit against his former employer. SecurityFocus interviews would-be keystroke logger user Larry Lee Ropp who reportedly installed the KEYKatcher device on the PC."

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  1. Re:Just slightly OT by irc.goatse.cx+troll · · Score: -1, Troll

    "I mean, is there any useful use for this device at all?"

    Obviously they sent her to an all girl school, and frankly, if creating a sexually repressed teenager whos destened to rebel by sleeping with everyone and doing porn, AND giving her a hot schoolgirl uniform isn't useful, I don't know what is.

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  2. Re:Just slightly OT by REBloomfield · · Score: -1, Troll
    yes, if those phrases include "i'd like to buy a big bag of your finest columbian heroin please". We have a duty of care, we aren't just going to let them run riot.

    Disclaimer: we don't monitor phone lines. We do monitor students actions on the PC's, the internet, and email, for appropriate content. We don't do this by trawling through every one of their files, they are only examined if questionable content is found. It works very well.

  3. In Soviet Russia... by sofakingon · · Score: -1, Troll

    The keyboards eat YOU!

  4. Re:Just slightly OT by darkmeridian · · Score: 1, Troll

    I hate to say this, but teens aren't quite adults yet. Even physiologically, their brains are matured yet. (The centers for self-restraint do not fully develop until after adolescence.) They need to be monitored. Children who plan on suicide, children who are planning massacres, children who are drinking and worse, these children need help. And we can't help them unless we look after them.

    Yes, wiretapping and espionage seems repellant. But we can't stand by and watch Columbines roll by in the name of excess liberalism.

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  5. Panties in a bind by Mulletproof · · Score: -1, Troll

    Good to hear that Big Brother is alive and well in our schools. This kind of thing just makes me sick

    Oh, get off it. It's a school. "Big brother" monitors them during recess, during sports and during class. It's called SUPERVISION. Teachers make sure you don't bring toys and knives to school or otherwise screw off during class. This is the same damn thing. YOU AREN'T GUARANTEED A RIGHT TO PRIVACY WHILE YOU'RE IN SCHOOL, nor should that be the case quite frankly. You're there to learn on your parents dime using school property, not surf pr0n.

    For cryin out loud, you'd think people would know this already...

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  6. I wonder if this is the same guy from my condo ass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ociation that touched my junk liberally. he strapped me in to his golfcartmobile and he couldnt keep his offensive hands off of me. he was performing many red flag touches. i couldnt believe what the fuck was going on. i told the property manager that the board of directors would not approve of a millionaire touching an underage kid for free.
    can you believe it? the property manager did all this. he picked me off the street, strapped my arms and legs down in the golf cart's passenger seat, and just wouldn't stop fondling my cock'n'balls.
    they definately were red flag touches. the goddamn referee he had in the back seat kept on raising up this red flag every time he touched my junk but did the property manager care? NO WAY! he just kept on doing it. I couldn't believe what the fuck was going on, indeed. I pleaded with the property manager but to no avail. I told him the board of directors would not approve of such a wealthy man touching an underage kid like me (at the time I was 16 and a half) without at least compensating me for the trauma and the use of my body as his own personal plaything.
    this got to him, worrying about his image. he continued to fondle me, all the while ignoring the referee's red flags. then he drove the golf cart to my house and ejected the seat i was in! it was amazing. but surprisingly, after I woke up the next morning, my bank account had $150k in it!!! Can you believe it???
    I just wish I'd had a keylogger installed in the condo association club house.