Future Possibilities? Cool or Big Brother?

Hello. I help to manage and maintain a number of machines at my school through ARD. I was just wondering about future developments. Would ARD Admin users be able to see the output of the built in iSight cameras or have the audio piped out to the ARD Admin's machine?
I could see all of these possible developments as useful, however, how much is too much? I wonder what concerns individuals have about the present state of ARD privacy and future versions of ARD if such developments were to occur.

Could you explain to me in a bit more detail the client side logs that can be used?
They're not very detailed but they allow you to at least track that something happened. I just connected to a machine at work via ARD and then I checked its system.log file. You can do this as a machine administrator by opening the Console application from /Applications/Utilities. In the upper left corner, click "Logs" and you'll see the system.log in the list on the left. I then used the Filter in the upper right corner to search for entries pertaining to "ARD".
This is what I have recorded (IP address and name are altered for security):
Mar 11 12:37:37 P85732 /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent: 'wsmith' (192.168.xxx.xxx) started ARD administration
Mar 11 12:37:39 P85732 /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent: 'wsmith' (192.168.xxx.xxx) started ARD administration
The contents of the two strings above are:
Date = Mar 11
Time = 12:37:37
Computer name that I connected to = P85732
Service Name and its path = /System/.../ARDAgent
Administrator's name using ARD = 'wsmith'
Administrator's IP address = (192.168.xxx.xxx)
What happened = started ARD administration (observe or control)
We use Active Directory for authentication and so my name appears in the log, which is ideal for tracing activity. Therefore, if our company president receives a nasty email from a particular user and we can trace that it came from this machine, the user has some defense because the logs show that I'm also connected (and possibly controlling) this machine.
Hope this helps! bill
1 GHz Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

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...thats what most managers do .. without even looking how in turn by selecting such a tool they make the life tough for the developers.Been there many times. Few non-technical managers understand the process of tool evaluation and selection and the value a good process adds to the project. Nor do they understand the implications of making a bad choice (cost, productivity, maintainability).
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