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Originally posted by Kyle Fenton
Well he is partly correct. While spying is kind of bad, it may or may not be legal. Depends on the terminology you want to use. Many companies monitor, employees activities to make sure they are doing the right stuff. Schools usually employ software that can monitor students activities. However if you are planning to implant is as a virus, and use it to see what they are doing, than yes that is illegal. No, and hacking is not life in prison, it is most of the times, 5 years and a fine, of course that depends on what you hack into. The only time when that is legal if you have a wire-tap order issued by the courts.
The only spy software that I know of that is remotely free, is one of those programs that takes Jpeg screen shots that run in the background. But those are easy to spot, because you will eventually notice that your hard drive files will be getting larger and larger, without you doing anything. Then finding the programs would be easily shut down. I forgot the names on them but you can find them at download.com, tucows.com, and so on.
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Actually, I am fully correct, you just read it wrong.
1. Connecting to a person's computer without their authorization is a form of hacking. It is a fact of violating their property. Companies can monitor a computer's usage because they
own the computer. It is, in fact, illegal to videotape employees working for the sole purpose of spying on them, so this is the next best thing. They are only monitoring how
their property is being used. Essentially, they are doing usage statistics.
2. Key word I said is
could. The new 9/11 laws establish a
maximum penalty for hacking as life imprisionment. This just means that if someone does something extremely bad they can send them to prison for life, chances are for something like this (if the person ever complains/finds out), you'll just get a slap on the wrist and a small fine.
I don't feel like digging up legal documents right now...