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Jackal Alert! A Reader Of My Blog Is Being Spied On Via Remote Spy
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Talk about Mercury in Scorpio, yesterday while scanning the referrals for my blog yesterday I came across a link from this site: RemoteSpy.com. It’s clear someone is using a keylogger / spy software to monitor someone who reads my blog. But here’s the thing:
The link contains what appears to be a first and last name. Like this:
“…members/users/ELAINE $$$$ PC log/index/websites”
Now it seems to me this is Elaine’s account and she is the one doing the spying but it could be Elaine being spied on so I edited out the last name.
If you think this is you, please email the last name and I will confirm. I also have city where the person is logging on and I just want to point out, Remote Spy is selling this supposedly sly software, yet reveals your user name in the url. ::shakes head::
Talk about hiding in plain sight.
What would you do if you found out someone was monitoring you via software they had installed on your computer?
12 Responses to “Jackal Alert! A Reader Of My Blog Is Being Spied On Via Remote Spy”
have a professional (a friend i’d ask to help) go through and clean out the computer, documenting everything so i could confront whoever with it.
if i knew who they were. if i didn’t? much the same, except i’d have to try to gather information on who they were and then figure out if i was going to confront them.
*shrug* not that i expect anyone would have a reason to try…
that’s pretty funny, though, that it left a link for you….
I agree with all the above. That’s pretty alarming–need I add that would be the end of that ‘relationship’? Maybe this is too harsh, but it seems that even if this person is being spied upon (rather than doing any spying herself) I would hesitate to remain in contact, simply because they don’t practice ’safe internet’!
As always, thanks Elsa!
If it were me, Id be livid. But it could be a parent monitoring her children.. you just never know.
I hate to break it to you, folks, but NOTHING you do online is private. Government spying programs (e.g., Carnivore) can monitor your email without your knowledge or consent, and many of the large ISPs are cooperating with them. In situations where they suspect criminal activity, terrorism, and such, they have sophisticated equipment that can monitor every keystroke. A friend of mine used to work for a security firm and told me some hair-raising stories of what they can do.
Not that they’d want to waste their time on any of us…
The main way in which most of us are spied on these days is via marketing programs. This is done by companies that want to monitor your Internet viewing habits, what you buy, how much you spend, and so forth. I supposedly have software on my computer that blocks this sort of thing, but I never know whether it’s actually working or not.
If I knew that someone in particular was hacking into my system, I’d have some fun with them. Maybe I’d email a friend with the final plan for our plot to murder someone. Or I’d discuss our recent bank robbery and provide details of where the money was hidden. Oh … or how about a detailed account of the affair the spy’s partner was engaged in.
I once had someone who monitored my chats (never found whatever it was that he thought he’d find), and got himself caught by bringing it up in an argument. I divorced him.
Trust is too important to trample.
oh my gosh! i’d have a holy fit. what an unimaginable violation of trust…my mars in scorp would be livid!
what a weird story. now i’m going to have to go check my server logs for this remotespy place…
Oh wow. That’s so funny that it has the person’s name in the URL though. I would be so mad. But right now I’m just having such a good chuckle.
I actually found out that one of my parents was doing that to me and the rest of the family and I can’t even begin to express the betrayal I felt. It really is shameful.
Oh, they would be so cut off! After I blew a new orifice in their body with the force of my wrath, of course.
I don’t know how one could even contemplate such an action without feeling slimy! I’ve got some major trust issues myself and I think if you feel like you have to take those types of measures then it’s not worth it.
I guess it’s different if it’s a parent/child, like Charlotte mentioned, but even then I’d be telling my kids that I had it on there. Which, come to think of it, defeats the purpose. 
It’s such a basic betrayal of personal space. This is one that would take a while to calm down from, I think.
For me, the fact that you never know if you are truly shielded from spyware and tracking programs it takes too long to know about is worse.
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Thank you for outing that! Personally, I would be pissed - that would be an unmendable offense.