On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Roshan George <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 23:12 +0530, Harish R wrote: > > Hello, > > Just asking out of curiosity. > > Cant we have some deamon running in the background which constantly > monitors > > all the keystrokes pressed. Like a keylogger in windows and pop up a > dialog > > box or something when a banned word is pressed? > > Yeah, you can do that with Xlib. Of course, if you find yourself doing > that, it is time to seriously evaluate your computer access policies, > and possibly your life. I can't think of a good reason why anyone would > want to do this. > > IIRC a fundamental philosophy during Unix design was to keep 'policy' and 'mechanism' separate (according to Kernighan, I think). The OP's question was about the mechanism. In many cases the person implementing the mechanism might not have a say on the policy! Mixing the politics of policy with mechanism is not a good idea. regds, mano _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
