Regarding the keylogger in the linux fedora systems

[Kevin Martin]

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>  Its a bad idea to install something like that on your machine anyway.
> An attacker will probably know of all such common tools floating
> around, like a prepackaged rpm, and check for their existence, they
> find it, you save them the trouble of installing one, they spend their
> time copying the log you've so conveniently assembled for them. Your
> concerned about security and your going to trust someone else's
> prepackaged keylogger? Better just restrict what the machine can
> do....there is a tool to help with this but you know I just can't
> remember the name.
>
>   

Maybe he's a parent trying to see what his kid(s) are really doing on 
the internet?

Other more serious trust/discipline issues involved here, I know, but 
still, this might be what's going on.

Kevin