On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Andrew McNabb <[email protected]> wrote:
> > This is a great issue because it shows how we disagree. I think it is > immoral (and should be illegal) to surreptitiously log the keystrokes of > a guest in your home. If you make an incredibly clear and specific > warning, then maybe it should be permissible, but you should not have > the right to monitor keystrokes without their complete understanding in > advance. > > Since one of the major things I teach in my LDS security class is that you most definitely should be running some form of monitoring to avoid pornography use on your computers by your family or their guests in your home, here I must disagree, and do so relatively strongly. :-D It's not that we don't trust our children, it is that we aren't in the business of tempting people in the family or in the Church. Thus, if they know that we can look at everything they do on our computers, then they are less likely to be tempted to do things that they shouldn't. I tell parents that if their children don't like it, tell them "I don't trust myself, that is why even what I do is logged, and my wife can see it" followed by "it is my computer, if you don't like it, that's too bad, when you move out and buy your own computers you can do what you want with them." If a guest in my home doesn't like that I monitor what is done on my computers, then they can use someone else's computers. Thus, your position would invalidate one of the first major suggestions of my security class. I didn't come up with this either. Using known monitoring is one of the first recommendations of most pornography addiction recovery and prevention services. People are far less likely to slip when they KNOW that people are watching what they do. The point isn't to "catch" someone but to deter them from doing it in the first place. James -- "And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun..." (Mark 16:2) Web: http://james.jlcarroll.net
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