some scarey shower musings
In the shower this morning I was thinking about VNC.... yup I'm an IT guy,
VNC or Virtual Network Connection is an important tool in the service I do for remote
computers, frankly I prefer to talk to a guy over the phone, take remote control over his computer and get feedback from him rather than sit down to work on his machine and have him run off when I have more questions, he isnt there. So VNC which we install on all our
users computers allows us to log in and take control of their computers and install or fix problems, yay!
ahhh, not so yay. The other day I logged in to a fellows machine when he wasn;t expecting me, he couldn't tell and I got off his machine as soon as I saw he was looking at some soft pr0n.
An evil guy could do a lot with this tool. I want you fired? I could log in when you aren't there, write a nasty email from you to your boss.... stuff that I will NEVER do.
Also Dell and some other pc companies have a version of this software installed in one of their suport levels, If you call them, they can do what I do, Take control of your PC remotely and do the tech support needed. Now I don't know for sure, but the tech for the following is easy. Microsoft could be monitoring every Windows PC that is currently online and making a reocrd of every activity you are doing while you are onine. They could also be doing this and turning over their records to the government for scrutiny.
Are they? dunno. Is this a new thing? Well consider all your private correspondence is routed through a uniformed government agency for inspection and delivery, no it ain't.
Just a little paranoia to go with your cornflakes this morning folks!
VNC or Virtual Network Connection is an important tool in the service I do for remote
computers, frankly I prefer to talk to a guy over the phone, take remote control over his computer and get feedback from him rather than sit down to work on his machine and have him run off when I have more questions, he isnt there. So VNC which we install on all our
users computers allows us to log in and take control of their computers and install or fix problems, yay!
ahhh, not so yay. The other day I logged in to a fellows machine when he wasn;t expecting me, he couldn't tell and I got off his machine as soon as I saw he was looking at some soft pr0n.
An evil guy could do a lot with this tool. I want you fired? I could log in when you aren't there, write a nasty email from you to your boss.... stuff that I will NEVER do.
Also Dell and some other pc companies have a version of this software installed in one of their suport levels, If you call them, they can do what I do, Take control of your PC remotely and do the tech support needed. Now I don't know for sure, but the tech for the following is easy. Microsoft could be monitoring every Windows PC that is currently online and making a reocrd of every activity you are doing while you are onine. They could also be doing this and turning over their records to the government for scrutiny.
Are they? dunno. Is this a new thing? Well consider all your private correspondence is routed through a uniformed government agency for inspection and delivery, no it ain't.
Just a little paranoia to go with your cornflakes this morning folks!