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From: karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Watch, Spy, whatever you wanna call it
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Date: 20 Sep 90 22:06:51 GMT
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In article <29835@netnews.upenn.edu> kehoe@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:
> Well, anyway, what's the deal? Has one ever been written for under Unix? 

Lots of times.  Thing is, the authors wisely do not distribute them widely
because they (and we) don't *want* managers, syspriv weenies and control
freaks to have it.  It's sort of like nuclear nonproliferation.  Plus people 
really hate to be spied on.

(As to whether it's legitimate to spy or not, it's a question for another
newsgroup -- in my opinion management should use normal management tools
for determining whether or not you're working -- like if you're meeting your 
schedules, never in your office, etc.)

Or should I have said "It figures that VMS would have this" to bait all the 
VMS weenies?  Naah, that'd be too easy...
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