>> As distasteful as it sounds, my boss has asked me about the possibility of >> what I'll call 'Passive Shadowing', ie, shadowing someones workstation without >> the ability to take it over, and *without them knowing it*, so he can see what >> they are doing. >> >> The reason for this is, we have a big problem with people spending lots of >> time 'playing' on the internet when they should be working, and the boss would >> like to be able to look in on them from time to time. >> >> I don't like the idea much, but I do see a need for it in some cases. >> > >I see this as unethical and a violation of an individuals privacy and >dignity. I would never work for a company that had such equipment. I >do hope that such covert features never make it to mainstream open >source code.
Big Boss is watching you.... ;) Agree ! Doesn't law protect employees from such "big-brothering" ? BTW: We use desktop-shadowing feature of Citrix ICA - and we had big discussions regarding this issue - since we have some problems with an app, when users forget to log out "cleanly". Bu we don't even THINK ABOUT disabling the popup-message feature "request for shared session - do you allow this?" - NEVER ! regards Roland PS: Since your boss isn't a sysadmin for sure, how will he know if HE isn't being shadowed ??? ;))) _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
