Snore while they snoop

[John Young]

Responding to msg by solman at 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