Untrust worthy friend

**Gavner** · September 8th, 2008

Hey there Ubuntu Forum members,

I have a bit of a dilemma here, I have a friend thats living with me and my parents but the problem is, I don't exactly trust him. I have a feeling he may be doing illegal things on our internet connection and I would like to monitor what he is doing.

If you guys can give me ways to monitor his internet activity I will be very appreciative. (Of course I would warn him I was going to do this, I wouldn't like to find out I was being spied on without warning.)

The only reason I even think about doing this is to protect me and my parents from anything bad that can come from him doing anything illegal.

**rogeriopvl** · September 8th, 2008

You have tons of different ways to monitor. Like, check the browser history, bash history, set up a keylogger that activates when he starts his session etc..

**hyper_ch** · September 8th, 2008

you know that too much monitoring, especially when you don't inform the other one, you might get yourself into legal problems.

**Dr Small** · September 9th, 2008

Originally Posted by hyper_ch

you know that too much monitoring, especially when you don't inform the other one, you might get yourself into legal problems.

I don't see how you could, when it's your house.

**scouser73** · September 9th, 2008

How about not letting him have access to the PC.

**hyper_ch** · September 9th, 2008

Originally Posted by Dr Small

I don't see how you could, when it's your house.

Surveillance might be a violation of the other's privacy rights. It's one thing to forbid not using a computer but another one to monitor what a person does on it - especially if that person's not notified of the monitoring.