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by WalterBright 2260 days ago
The trouble with taking screenshots is then you have to employ people to spend their day examining and evaluating the screenshots.

Before computers could transcribe voice, the limiting factor of wiretapping is needing some poor schmuck who had to listen to all those utterly banal conversations, which has to be one of the worst jobs ever.
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kqr 2260 days ago
> The trouble with taking screenshots is then you have to employ people to spend their day examining and evaluating the screenshots.

What I don't understand is how they explain that to their customers.

"Yeah, you're not quite getting what you paid for because we spent a portion of it hiring a couple of guys to look at screenshots of our employees computers. Sorry. You can get free screenshots?"

And customers accept this waste of money?

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curryst 2258 days ago
Not necessarily. You could probably catch 90% of people just by using some simple matching. The top social media sites have a pretty distinctive layout you could match on; and you can diff screenshots to catch people who are constantly AFK.

It's not going to catch someone who has put some thought into how to circumvent these, but it's enough to catch a lot of the non-HN people.

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downerending 2260 days ago
In general, the screenshot trace will only actually be looked at when someone decides that they want your ass for other reasons.
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