From: rah@shipwright.com (Robert Hettinga)
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 94 09:46:40 PDT
To: John Young <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Snore while they snoop
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At 12:06 PM 8/22/94 -0400, John Young wrote:

>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.

Then there's this company called, I think, "Wave" Inc. out of Colorado
somewhere.  The first time I heard of it was in Peter Huber's Forbes column
a year or so ago. The guy who's fronting it is a former chairman of a large
defense contractor (United Technologies?).  It involves metering
application software use down to the second, using PC boards and the
internet, or some other WAN equivalent.

A dongle is forever...

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga

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