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<H4>By James T. Dennis,
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>Incompetance in Parenting</H3>
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<p><strong>From Bernard Hahn on Fri, 25 Jun 1999
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Hello my name is Bernie.
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I have a 16 year old son that is heading for big trouble on
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the net while I am at work. I can not be in both places at
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the some time to keep an eye on him. Do you know if there are
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any programs that will run in Windows 98 that can copy the
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key board buffer to a file that would let me read in a text
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format. I would like the program to run at boot up and be
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able to copy the buffer all day long. I believe reading his
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keyboard buffer may be of some help to me.
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Please help, thank you for any help you my have to offer,
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<br>Bernie in Los Angeles
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First, I'm NOT the "I want to spy on my children's use of MS
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Windows" Guy! I'm the Linux Gazette Answer Guy.
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Of course, if you used Linux it would be pretty easy to
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secure the system so that the Internet and the modem were
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inaccessible during specific times of day or until specific
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passwords had been typed. It would even be possible to
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configure filtering and access control (to monitor and limit
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web access). You'd probably need to invest in some
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cabinetry (physically securing a PC generally involves carpentry).
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Your question has nothing to do with Linux.
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More importantly your problem is much larger than any
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software can solve. No software in the world could possibly
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make your son more trustworthy. You cannot keep your kid
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out of "big trouble on the net" by spying on his keystrokes.
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If the muddled thinking that leads you to the fundamentally
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flawed (and morally corrupt) notion that you should covertly
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spy on your own teenage child using such software is typical
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of your approach to parenting then its probably too late for
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Bernie Jr.
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I don't know what kind of "big trouble" you're trying to
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protect the kid from. If it's porn, keep in mind that porn
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sites are generally accessed through a GUI browser --- which
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are conveniently configured for one-handed operation (point
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and shoot, so to speak). If you're afraid that the kid is
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"cracking" (sometimes erroneously referred to as "hacking")
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and/or phreaking than any attempts you make to lock him out
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of your Windows '98 PC will just be too pathetic. If you do
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successfully find out that he's been vising 'badboys.net'
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what do you plan to do? Confront him with your printouts?
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Ground him until he's 35?
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So what do you think the kid will do when he knows he's been
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caught out? Will it be an contest: your computer skills and
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time against his? Can he detect and bypass your futre
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methods better than you can implement them? Will he go use
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some buddy's computer? Will he skip the virtual trouble of
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the 'net and go out to get into trouble of a more dangerous
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variety? What will it do for the kid's opinion of you that
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you don't have the balls to talk to him directly and that
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you have to resort sneaking around on him?
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The whole think is disgusting.
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If you can't trust the kid with the computer by himself ---
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lock the computer is some room when you're not home or get
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rid of it.
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>Copyright ©</a> 1999, James T. Dennis
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<BR>Published in <I>The Linux Gazette</I> Issue 43 July 1999</H5>
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