[SheinhardtWigCo]

Does this really happen, or would it ever? Seems like a contrived scenario for employees to have enough access and knowledge to detect and defeat a userspace or kernel-resident solution that doesn’t want to be found. Plus, if you’re going that far, you’d want to make sure it wasn’t easily detectable by analyzing network traffic.

I’m sure such a thing is out there, but I doubt it’s being used by employers to spy on workers. More like governments spying on workers with access to sensitive IP.

[nitrogen]

Yes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Tech...

Plus the laptop "anti-theft" BIOSes that phone home whose name I cannot recall.

[bob1029]

Computrace?

[WarOnPrivacy]

That'd be it. My Thinkpads let me permanently disable it.

[MintelIE]

That's what the BIOS claims anyway...

[Spooky23]

Nope. It’s all over.

Absolute Computrace starts at $29 and is resident in most every OEM BIOS manufactured in the last 20-25 years.