Microsoft Records Computer Desktop Action like TiVo
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Microsoft has a new release of Visual Studio 2010 that has airplane style black box technology that records everything the user does. Visual Studio is a programmer application. The idea is to be able to review the programmer's actions to see what might have gone wrong. But if they can do this with Visual Studio, how long will it be before they do it with everything else (or are they already?)?
I suppose this is a useful tool for developers to review their actions, since development is very complex and it's easy to lose track of what you've done. But couldn't this also be used as a management tool to micro manage developers and possibly reprimand or fire them when it is discovered they have done something against company policy.
You may think there's nothing wrong with spying on employees. But the problem is that spying cannot be applied equally across all staff. Who spies on the managers or the CEOs? What if someone is doing something that appears wrong but is actually innocent? The implications go on and on.
If developers have this technology, how hard can it be to program it into everyone's desktop? How hard could it be to then send reports of users' activities to anyone who has the ability to do this, such as Microsoft or the government? What about hackers who could record users activities on their bank accounts? It may be limited to Visual Studio for now, but what's to stop it from getting into the wrong hands?
We've already seen bank melt downs that have people turning towards cash instead of using banks and credit cards. Perhaps we'll see them go back to pencils and paper.
I suppose this is a useful tool for developers to review their actions, since development is very complex and it's easy to lose track of what you've done. But couldn't this also be used as a management tool to micro manage developers and possibly reprimand or fire them when it is discovered they have done something against company policy.
You may think there's nothing wrong with spying on employees. But the problem is that spying cannot be applied equally across all staff. Who spies on the managers or the CEOs? What if someone is doing something that appears wrong but is actually innocent? The implications go on and on.
If developers have this technology, how hard can it be to program it into everyone's desktop? How hard could it be to then send reports of users' activities to anyone who has the ability to do this, such as Microsoft or the government? What about hackers who could record users activities on their bank accounts? It may be limited to Visual Studio for now, but what's to stop it from getting into the wrong hands?
We've already seen bank melt downs that have people turning towards cash instead of using banks and credit cards. Perhaps we'll see them go back to pencils and paper.
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