Almost made me wish I was doing something naughty, so I d have something interesting to look at the next day. Both programs raise a host of ethical concerns. As a non-parent, I ll let others judge whether running one of these programs on Junior s hard drive is a sad but accurate reflection of the dangerous times we live in, or a step over the paranoia line. I can understand the desire to use one of these in an office setting. Not that I d be happy about being on the receiving end, but with proper notification to the workers being snooped it would be a defensible intrusion.
Proper notification seems like more than half the point, however.
Knowing the software is there should be sufficient deterrent to keep all but the most determined abusers on the clean, well-lit side of the Internet. David Becker is a San Francisco-based technology writer and former managing editor at TechWeek. Inc. All rights reserved.