jack trades wrote: > Honestly I never even thought of that, it just sounded like a > fun, and easy, > project to put my mediocre programming skills to some use. > However his main concern is internet predators (too much > Dateline I think) not porn, I should > have worded it differently in the OP.
Technically I would not use a keylogger for this. Your implementation can be circumvented easyly anyway, and every spyware detection tool will report the hooks immediately. However I think that tool could do nicely for application documentation :-) To protect the children from predators I'd use transparent proxies, to analyze all textual traffic for specific statistical patters, kinda like a Bayes Spam filter, and raise an alarm as soon something unusual, eventually in combination with some keywords happens. This includes majorly 3 protocols: HTTP, SMTP and IRC. e-mails should be prefiltered anyway, alone for all the spam. Such a system is best installed on a dedicated machine, e.g. a Linux based router/gateway, that transparently sends all HTTP, SMTP and IRC traffic through the analyzers. This cannot be circumvented, as long the kids don't know the root password for the gateway. If you're still up on making screenshots, I'd recommend to install a VNC deamon, as a _system service_(!), to which the alarm action program connects to make screenshots. Wolfgang Draxinger -- E-Mail address works, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ: 134682867 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list