make sure that you ...

7 November 2001

make sure that you don’t have one of these little devices plugged into the back of your machine! of course if you did have there would be:

a banner notice indicating the keystroke monitoring policy … (and) … by signing on and using the system, (you would be) expressly consenting to having (your) keystrokes monitored or recorded … despite privacy concerns this device seems pretty ineffective to me. if i wanted to spy on someone elses computer (and i don’t!) i could find better ways to do it than by adding a hardware device to their system. the keykatcher also stop recording when it’s 8-64k memory fills up. which seems not terribly useful to me.