The are no USB keyloggers yet commercially available in production. Also, the DDK example keyboard filter driver code that the script kiddie loggers are based on only works with PS/2 keyboards. This would eliminate the amateur hour attacks, at least. And if a TLA wants you, or the Russian Mob, you're toast no matter what you do.
It doesn't destroy any business at all. You're still free to write your own code, lock it up, and "control the economy based around it." You just don't get to "control the economy based around" GPL code.
This document was overclassified to begin with. The paragraphs so classified mostly state the obvious. I tend to concur with the idea that this "leak" was intentional, in an attempt to make the DoD look good.
Such concession, even for rhetorical purposes, isn't necessary. I didn't think I was competing; just dicussing. Corporate revenue or even existence is complete uncomparable with the value of even one human life.
Such monitoring as you describe would only be justified with consent (as a condition of employment), and only with human life at stake. Your company has people doing things at their desktops that can kill people? Unless you're at a spy agency, I think that's a little over the top.
And as been demonstrated by the fact that Office Max makes potential sales hires pee in a cup, it's a slippery slope.
But now you've introduced factors other than mere ownership, which is all you invoked in your previous post. And you obviously haven't heard the rumors I've heard about some of the bathrooms where I work:).
Replace PC with toilet, network with plumbing, and Internet connection with water supply in the above for some amusement and insight into my opinion that ownership justifies intrusive monitoring.
If you aren't a local admin legitimately, I don't think becoming one is going to be very good for your continued employment prospects, however technically trivial it happens to be.
The problem is that once you've gone down the road of punishing all employees (e.g. Websense) for the actions of the few (e.g. playboy.com), things like IM are next on the hit list as soon as someone abuses it. Things like Playboy or online gambling should be addressed by managers actually managing, not some box that makes the PHBs feel better but makes slackers find some other way to slack.
Does your workplace permit finding about little Suzy's soccer practice with an encrypted IM client? Or do all IMs have to be naked before the all-seeing eye of IT?
Not at the cost of privacy for everyone in the whole world, no. There are other means for catching child abusers (or people who, like the guy referenced in your post, looked at pictures of children being abused) than chucking the Fourth Amendment out the window.
On the face of it, that seems reasonable. But the lines between work and off-time aren't so black and white for lots of us "knowlege workers." Part of the unspoken bargain that involves us working any time, anywhere is some flexibility at the office to take care of personal things. Locking down web surfing, trawling emails for keywords, and more Draconian policies, while technically within an employers rights, tear up that social contract and render employees likely to do exactly what you say: "Work at work." But only at work.
Because Jobs' gargantuan ego causes him to seek attention, whether intentionally or not. He had to know that the move he made would do nothing more than pique the interest of those who would otherwise not give two shakes about his life.
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To clarify the above, there are no hardware USB keyloggers yet commercially available in production.
The are no USB keyloggers yet commercially available in production. Also, the DDK example keyboard filter driver code that the script kiddie loggers are based on only works with PS/2 keyboards. This would eliminate the amateur hour attacks, at least. And if a TLA wants you, or the Russian Mob, you're toast no matter what you do.
It lets them pump more spam out of the three or four IP addresses they have left that aren't in blocklists.
The INDUCE Act, if it had passed, would probably have had the nearly immediate effect of shutting down U.S. premium Usenet providers.
How do you propose that how much broadcast television watching (other than for Nielsen families or TiVo users) was to be "tracked?"
It doesn't destroy any business at all. You're still free to write your own code, lock it up, and "control the economy based around it." You just don't get to "control the economy based around" GPL code.
Amusing, but estuary laws would keep that $10 from growing into anything significant before the state got its grubby hands on it.
Also worth reading is the Digital Imprimatur
This document was overclassified to begin with. The paragraphs so classified mostly state the obvious. I tend to concur with the idea that this "leak" was intentional, in an attempt to make the DoD look good.
Damn, another movie I haven't seen. But I get the picture :).
Such monitoring as you describe would only be justified with consent (as a condition of employment), and only with human life at stake. Your company has people doing things at their desktops that can kill people? Unless you're at a spy agency, I think that's a little over the top.
And as been demonstrated by the fact that Office Max makes potential sales hires pee in a cup, it's a slippery slope.
How do you fake the SSL certs to the clients to be able to sniff the traffic?
But now you've introduced factors other than mere ownership, which is all you invoked in your previous post. And you obviously haven't heard the rumors I've heard about some of the bathrooms where I work :).
Replace PC with toilet, network with plumbing, and Internet connection with water supply in the above for some amusement and insight into my opinion that ownership justifies intrusive monitoring.
So, do you proxy port 443 :)?
If you aren't a local admin legitimately, I don't think becoming one is going to be very good for your continued employment prospects, however technically trivial it happens to be.
Does your workplace permit finding about little Suzy's soccer practice with an encrypted IM client? Or do all IMs have to be naked before the all-seeing eye of IT?
Not at the cost of privacy for everyone in the whole world, no. There are other means for catching child abusers (or people who, like the guy referenced in your post, looked at pictures of children being abused) than chucking the Fourth Amendment out the window.
On the face of it, that seems reasonable. But the lines between work and off-time aren't so black and white for lots of us "knowlege workers." Part of the unspoken bargain that involves us working any time, anywhere is some flexibility at the office to take care of personal things. Locking down web surfing, trawling emails for keywords, and more Draconian policies, while technically within an employers rights, tear up that social contract and render employees likely to do exactly what you say: "Work at work." But only at work.
Sure. Because all the people who work in paranoid corporate cultures are local administrators of their machines.
So the ends justify the means, and trawling the email of the innocent is perfectly OK. Truly scary what this country has come to.
There should be an addendum to the GPL prohibiting the calling of proprietary APIs, obviously.
Nice word :). Had to look it up, but I had seen it before, at the Vatican's web site.
Because Jobs' gargantuan ego causes him to seek attention, whether intentionally or not. He had to know that the move he made would do nothing more than pique the interest of those who would otherwise not give two shakes about his life.
You can trust her if you want, but I recommend you use a DRM wrapper on your trusted root for the time being.