Hardware Keylogger

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HI everyone

I have a question concerning Keyloggers.
Management wants me to track user activity on my floor especially ketstrokes. I was wondering if Hardware keyloggers are legal 1stly. and secondly can anyone direct me to a reliable website where i can purchase some, usb and ps2.

Thanx
 
Firstly, depends. If your company has a policy that allows for the monitoring of it's users, including keyloggers, then it would be OK. Secondly, I don't know where you could buy one, never had the need :)
 
Rather implement a less stringent system like a monitored proxy, random remote desk view etc. I just feel keyloggers are way too much because they may access their online banking or web e - mail accounts etc.
 
I see. the company's policy is to randomly monitor users and their activities and the personla use of company equipment including personal banking and email isnt permitted
 
Companies that refuse even email and personal banking for their employees make me sick ....
 
Well said Mephisto.

I still think random desktop view with a monitoring proxy would be the best to go. Also I would think only check out anyone's mail if they exceed a certain volume in the queue, etc (if they are mailing a lot of their friends it should appear out of the norm and you can check for free mail account sending stats vs corporate mail destination stats).

It's still not nice to work for a company that does that, but it's a whole lot better than a keylogger.
 
Regardless of company policy or any contract, if it is against the law it is illegal. It could even be illegal to force them to sign a waiver that would "allow" you to do it. Keylogging is a serious invasion of privacy, I suggest you contact a lawyer and not ask on internet forums.
 
kongwane said:
I see. the company's policy is to randomly monitor users and their activities and the personla use of company equipment including personal banking and email isnt permitted
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:sick:
What's next, can't make coffee at work or make photocopies unless it is ok'd by management... to make sure it's work related?
wow people are really hard up to work for such companies :(
 
Be careful. You will log your workstations and one employee's bank account will be hacked. You will have the mother of all wars on your door step developing faster than a politician exiting a brother during a police raid.

You will have a written and signed piece of paper saying you(company) are and were recording keystrokes. It will be caught, judged and fried in one sentence in court.
 
Peon said:
Be careful. You will log your workstations and one employee's bank account will be hacked. You will have the mother of all wars on your door step developing faster than a politician exiting a brother during a police raid.

You will have a written and signed piece of paper saying you(company) are and were recording keystrokes. It will be caught, judged and fried in one sentence in court.
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If you've followed the discussion you would have noticed at this company they don't have access to bank accounts or personal email ;)

edit: sorry, it's not permitted as per the OP.
 
I say do it ! You will be suprised what you see , ask me!

Unfortunatly I cant help you with a link. Not here .
 
Fiekus said:
If you've followed the discussion you would have noticed at this company they don't have access to bank accounts or personal email ;)

edit: sorry, it's not permitted as per the OP.
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If you would have read you would understand that if anything happens to Bobs account, you or the company will line up first at the firing range. Sure yes we dont know, record or look at bank accounts, but we do record and look at information. How is anyone going to believe that, just because you say so? Bottomline: If money goes missing and an investigation is launched, the company with their over-eager superiors and their uber-1337 keyloggers will come first.
 
Whatever happened to performance evaluations? You should rather implement a way to track worker performance - if they are excelling at what they do, then who cares if they use browsing and banking a bit while they work.

Rather have some kind of "reward" system instead of just blocking it entirely.
 
Peon said:
If you would have read you would understand that if anything happens to Bobs account, you or the company will line up first at the firing range. Sure yes we dont know, record or look at bank accounts, but we do record and look at information. How is anyone going to believe that, just because you say so? Bottomline: If money goes missing and an investigation is launched, the company with their over-eager superiors and their uber-1337 keyloggers will come first.
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I don't know what you're smoking... :confused: Read my posts above.. I hate this company with a passion! I don't work for them nor will I EVER work for such a retard company that won't even allow you to read your emails at work.
I was merely reminding you in a sarcastic way that at such a company people can't access / not allowed to access their bank accounts, so please enlighten me as to why you directing the above at me and "you or the company will line up first at the firing range" :confused:
 
Peon said:
Be careful. You will log your workstations and one employee's bank account will be hacked. You will have the mother of all wars on your door step developing faster than a politician exiting a brother during a police raid.

You will have a written and signed piece of paper saying you(company) are and were recording keystrokes. It will be caught, judged and fried in one sentence in court.
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Im sure you meant brothel otherwise :sick:
 
If they don't want people to get to their bank accounts and such, then why do they still allow them to get to those websites? Why don't they just accept a firewall/proxy policy that only allows certain sites through?

We do that in our call centre. There is a single internet machine for getting to your facebook, banking sites, etc. But on the desktop machines the agents are only allowed to the sites required for them to do their job. You do your banking, etc, on your break time.

Yes, we record screens, but that is part of the performance review requirements to ensure they're using the apps correctly.

As for the no personal e-mail account stuff... this is not allowed for our agents because we're a call centre where time is money. Spending time at your work desk doing personal gmail and facebook cuts revenue, affects your call handling and eventually reflects on your performance score and that eventually means you won't be getting a bonus.

Suddenly jumping onto logging what people do sounds like admitting that the firewalls/proxies are just not blocking correctly or the policy around it is flawed.

If you must have a keylogger, then rather get a software solution rather than a hardware solution. Hardware can die, but one can always re-install software. I think a screen recording solution would be fine.

Actually sounds to me like management saw a "keylogger" buzzword while browsing the 'net for other managementy things to say. :D j/k
And don't waste the money on hardware loggers if you need them. Rather get a software solution.
 
Very easy to build a hardware (and software for that matter) keylogger. If I was ever asked to make one though, I'd blatantly refuse. Does your company have no principle or moral? Do they think everyone who works for them is a hooker? Pay them R x per month and do whatever you want to them? Are they American?
 
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