So I’ve been super busy, as many of you know, and I have a long list of poetry to post (soon), but in the meantime I felt I just had to point out this ridiculous advertisement for a monitoring “tool”:

Any time you want to see what web sites your kids or employees are visiting, who they are chatting with, and what they are chatting about, simply plug in your SnoopStick to any Windows based computer with an Internet connection and a USB port. SnoopStick will automatically connect to the target computer.

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EASY TO USE! There are no commands to remember, no passwords to remember, just plug it in.

Who wants to guess how strong the authentication might be (I presume the USB device is sending its identity to a listener on the target computer) or how hard it is to have a one-to-many system to manage? Do you need a stick for every kid? Bad marketing, bad, bad…

Here are some more red-flags:

Completely secure.

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SnoopStick is NOT a simple screen capturing or email alert product like everything else out there.

Finally, complete security. And because everything else out there is a simple screen capture and email alert product.

*sigh*