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Re: Keystroke Loggers Save It,So Companies Can Peek Inside Employ ees' Heads
Richard wrote:
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If it is the case that such systems can be used to recreate documents (not
just count key strokes but tell what the keystrokes were) then any RM
program that company has is blown to hell as far as I can see. All of this
would be discoverable and would be worse than having the original documents
because you would have all of the drafts. Personally, I hope any company
using this kind of monitoring on a broad basis gets screwed. This is
Taylorism in all of its steel mill glory. Shovel that coal; hump that slag.
Maybe this kind of crap will bring back the unions.
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Having read the story the software cited in the article can recreate a
document keystroke by keystroke. (the example used is of a young lady
writing an application for a college) However I see it like you would a
typewriter ribbon. Careful decipherment of a typewriter ribbon (remember
those?) will allow you to recreate a document, form, etc. As others have
noted this particular software app is a tool and one that should not be
running all of the time.
Now as to Taylorism I don't see that at all. Currently reading a bio of
Taylor (The One Best Way) and I think that the man got a raw deal, distorted
by the unions and misused by management. (my opinion only)
Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Woodside Summit Group, Inc
Richmond, Virginia
Tel: 804-744-1247 extension 23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com
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