why all are thinking in that way only?

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Mon Jun 30 13:33:25 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 00:12:45 -0430,
  Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 09:56 +0530, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
> > when i asked for the keylogger in my system, why people thought of
> > illegal
> > activities only? it is MINE system and for use only in my system, i am
> > asking and further more, like one must have knowledge of viruses and
> > then
> > only he can create an antivirus, similarly it is for the knowledge of
> > keylogger to prevent the thefts
> 
> Because most people associate keyloggers with spying, and you didn't say
> why you wanted it. If you had given this perfectly reasonable
> explanation in the first place, I doubt anyone would have objected.

Right, because if he was planning on installing a keylogger on the linux
boxes in the local cybercafe, he would have been sure to tell us that and
not make up some story about just using it on his machine to learn how to
look for keyloggers other people had installed.




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