Question for a geek, please. Also, a do-the-math link.
Question  for Kyle or any other computer security guru. At work, I was reading my screen for quite a while, as I am an editor and was looking up something in my style book, when lo and behold, someone, I think, remotely, was opening different windows that I had in the taskbar, but not active on my screen, as if they were trying to see what else I had open on my desktop. So I moved my mouse and maximized my Microsoft Word window again. I thought that as the user, I would have to grant permission for an admin to use something like PC Anywhere. So what I want to know is, can the administrator of a network just take control of your computer and spy on you like that without you knowing if you weren't right there staring at the screen?

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OK and just for fun, do this math. At the Antarctica research station there are about 125 people, living in six months of darkness and they have 16,500 condoms...
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN0943167020080609