Bosses panic-buy spy software to keep tabs on remote workers

Re:Bosses panic-buy spy software to keep tabs on remote workers by gruez on Monday March 30, 2020 @02:04PM (#22730484)

>Because every place I've worked (including corporations) I've had local admin on my box and could see the entire process tree.

That's assuming that the spyware isn't some sort of rootkit that tries to hide its presence. If you're on windows, it's also very easy to hide behind some generic looking executables like svchost.exe

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Re:Bosses panic-buy spy software to keep tabs on remote workers by obmelvin on Monday March 30, 2020 @05:50PM (#22732595)

You are certainly correct, but a bit of light digging + reflection on your company can give you a lot of confidence. For example, I work at a startup and I can say with great certainty that my boss has way too much going on for him to have installed any sort of rootkit after wiping the previous data and before I set up my admin account.

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Re:Bosses panic-buy spy software to keep tabs on remote workers by ianai on Monday March 30, 2020 @07:56PM (#22733474)

You’re not the average employee-computer user!

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