If someone asks me to provide a way to find user histories, private data, and run off an inventory of security weaknesses on my computers at work, I'm not going to just turn that stuff over without wanting to know why the requester wants it, especially if he's dropping hints that a smackdown is coming. I COULD just "treat it like a technical question" and just give a "technical answer," but I wouldn't feel very proud of myself when I come into the office the next morning and find our servers looted, now would I?
That appears to be a debatable topic, but that's neither here nor there. Basically, you're asking to us to get involved in a very personal situation, and asking us to divulge things that COULD indeed be used to provide information that could be used maliciously and harmfully AND making it clear from Post 1 that animosity with a coworker is involved. How do you expect us to react?
There's a very technical, neutral way to ask the question: "I'm concerned about security and privacy. Assuming someone gained physical access to a Mac I used daily, what are the ways that one could look at the history of what a user did on that Mac, including web sites visited, files opened, applications that were installed, etc.?" Asking a question that sounds an awful lot like "I'm having a tiff with a coworker and I want to see if I can dig up dirt on her or find out if she's digging dirt one me..." is most certainly NOT a technical question. Don't want us to criticize the details? Then don't give us details.
That's great, because I don't want to know. Nor do I want anything to do with it! So please don't ask.
Others appear willing to help you. That's their choice, good luck to them.
Also, is it just me or have people been bringing in their dirty laundry quite a lot on these forums lately? there was that really protective dad, and now this.
