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by unwind 5555 days ago
Why should my computer have auditing capability, without my explicit knowledge or me making the decision to put it there? Who is it good for?
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> Who is it good for?

Someone who desires to keep track of a user's key strokes, for example a corporation. This is coming from someone who consents to monitoring every day.

While I agree it is not good for the singular, non-ignorant person, I'm sure there's a massive market for "Corporate Consumers" who'd like to save a buck instead of spending effort configuring a system.

About having the capability of auditing, I suppose it saves production costs to have one laptop with a switch, as opposed to two laptops with slight hardware or software differences.

Right I could see this being part of some child usage monitoring package. It may be part of some crapware that comes with the computer. I bet Samsung is scrambling right now to find out which crapware vendor included it and will find out it part of a net monitoring suite.