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by wkat4242 751 days ago
> I’m highly skeptical of the conclusions here. Many corporations already record periodic screenshots of employee devices. There’s also a bunch of hand waving of “security incident here, therefore hackers will access your machine”.

In highly specific situations, like customer care, yes. Also these machines tend to be super locked down, no admin rights for the users.

And yes this practice is risky. I managed some PCs for customer care and one of them was taken in for repair by the service desk and replaced, and redeployed without wiping it. It ended up in payroll and when we found out their manager was furious (quite understandably so).

Yes malware can install its own keylogger. But it's an extra step once again.