Keyloggers

November 18th, 2005

Slashdot had an article today on keystroke loggers.

According to rumours I’ve heard our school is currently in the process of purchasing keystroke logging programs to install on the computers. I have a real problem with this. Sure, the school has a duty and responsibility to ensure that people are not misusing the technology. However at the same time, they can’t infringe privacy too much. I believe logging keystrokes is taking it too far and crosses the line. Keystroke logging should not be necessary to ensure computers are not misused.

Anyone with proper access will have access to the passwords of other people’s user accounts, e-mail accounts and accounts at websites such as Google. Even if the school can be trusted with this information, it can easily fall into the wrong hands. I hope this is not true and if it was, at least we should be aware of it beforehand.