NODE 51b8a098Snore while they snoop
John Young <jya@pipeline.com>Mon, 22 Aug 94 09:07:07 PDT
Responding to msg by solman@MIT.EDU (Jason W Solinsky) on Mon,
22 Aug 1:42 AM
Tim says:
>> nothing that I've
>> seen mitigates the 1984 aspects of Cox's ideas.
You say:
>I'm afraid I'm not familiar with the aspects of which
>you speak. Has he proposed some sort of nightmarish
>enforcement system?
NY Times wrote yesterday on "metering" of software usage by
soft and hard means. This type of monitoring could easily,
Clipperly, "1984"-ishly, record and report on other activities
of the user.
Recall alarms here recently about covert features of operating
systems. Harmless looking hard devices may hide even more
monitoring features, steganographically (my bag).
John