Wednesday, October 24, 2007

How to destroy trust and alienate your children

By spying on them:
This company shows off the tools parents can use to spy on their children. You can get a keylogger that looks like just an extension to the USB keyboard. You can take their SIM card, transfer all the data to your computer, and then browse through all their calls and text messages using special software. You can install GPS in their shoes. You can use a handy little kit that easily and quickly detects the presence of semen on a surface.

It's not just about 'protecting' the children though, this stuff can be used against you as well. Good to know about it.
My daughter has a friend whose parents act like this. Of course her siblings and she use other teen's phones to make the illicit phone calls and use other people's computers to chat with creeps. And it is mainly because of the spying and the mistrust that they do it. Their parents also talk at their kids rather than with them, so in the end, more spy equipment will not help the parents connect.

4 comments:

Sorghum Crow said...

But what about the parents who discovered their sweet babby was an Al Qaeda operative by reviewing the baby monitor tapes??????????
It happened. I read about it on the internets.

Steve Bates said...

And just what surfaces will they be testing for semen? the dining table? the picnic blanket? the bicycle seat? the headliner in the car? the bristles of their daughter's toothbrush?

I agree with the assessment of the writer that the point to be taken is that "this stuff" can be used against anyone, not just by parents against children. Welcome to our brave new world.

JJ said...

Holy cow. I am aghast at how easily we as a society are starting to believe this kind of thing is acceptable behaviour. *shakes head*

OT: Ellroon, I hope you & yours are keeping safe.

ellroon said...

No fires around here, JJ. At least /knocks on wood ... not yet. We had a huge mountain fire two or three years back that took out 20+ houses where our town hits the foothills. The area looked like a nuke hit it.

My car had a light trim of ash this morning though and we can smell smoke in the air....