>-----Original Message----- >From: William Hooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >> I'm sure the CEO would love to hear about you popping in on his sessions >"To >> make sure he isn't viewing porn". :-) >> >> I support hundreds of users scattered over the entire siearra nevada >> mountains. I could not live without remote control software. I absolutely >> depend on it. But if I openly talked of spying on the people I support, I >> would loose this tool. No one likes being spied on. I, and socienty in >> general, consider that type of activity abuse of power. That's why people >> hate things like red light cameras and traffic monitoring stations on >> freeways. If the police came right out and said that they used all these >> tools to track your every move, irregardless of breaking the law, people >> would revolt. >> > >Oh, come on. Is it really any different than having "root" or >"administrator" privileges on the machines? You can read every file they >save anyway. If you can't be trusted to use administrative powers to help >users and not spy on them, I doubt you will be in that position anyway. >Comparing this to cameras in public places is completely off base. Have you >read any "Electronic Communication Policy" lately? If you don't own the >machine, you don't own what you type or what you save, the company does. If >an admin is "spying" on users, then that is an HR issue, not an IT/IS one. >-- >William Hooper > >I can see your point, but I still think you're full of it
There is a HUGE difference from where I sit. There is a big difference between having root access to recover the files after a crash or backing them up and openly digging through them on a whim to see what people are doing. The original post was discussing their "right" to opening spy on thier users. It is a complicated subject. But I do agree that this is completely an HR issue. In all cases. The reason I used the camera example was this: We accept these tools to be uses with strict guide lines. If an IT person uses a remote assistance tool to secretly gather passwords to the company HR database, or worse, the financial system, you can bet they will go to jail. In IT, we have rights to support everything, not see everything. I feel spying crosses the line. _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
