[datagramm]

"This keylogger program can be legitimately purchased and used, ostensibly for monitoring your kids’ or employees’ browsing habits, etc. As you can imagine, PK can also be used for badness."

Is this person suggesting that using a keylogger to spy on your employees/children without their knowledge is not 'badness'?!

[sequoia]

Recording your employees' use of company computers, given proper disclosure, is an employers prerogative. It's also legal (in some locales) for parents to do this to their children. I find it immoral, personally (the latter), but this is not the point of the story at all and the story was interesting and highly relevant, so I'm really disappointed to see this is the top comment.

[jiggy2011]

Yes, although usually a keylogger is not necessary. A few places I have worked the IT dept/Management had a VNC server running on every desktop (it showed up in the process list, I wasn't working in IT at the time).

I pointed this out to a few people who would use IM programs to 'flirt' with each other all day.

[monochromatic]

There are legitimate uses for a keylogger. You can argue about children, but I can certainly imagine circumstances where I'd think about using one on my kids.

As for employees, if it's a work computer I pretty much say anything is fair game.