[Datenschleuder] [58]    1984 In 1996?

Kurzmeldungen 1984 In 1996? While the PGP software helps keep outsiders from tracking your users' Internet habits, another new program can help you track those habits yourself. LittleBrother, a software package from Kansmen Corp., lets administrators track where employees go on the Internet, how long they stay and what they download. LittleBrother is being pitched as a way of helping network managers reduce "wasted time" by "slackers" in the organization. Administrators can use the software to analyze Internet usage, limit unproductive activity and block sites not related to work. And because LittleBrother lets users do their own policing of network usage, it reduces the need for Internet censorship, said Kan Ng, president of Kansmen, Milpitas, Calif. "Now, each business can decide which sites are productive or unproductive and limit access appropriately, which reduces the need for government interference on the Internet," he said. But even Kansmen conceded that all this technology is a bit Orwellian. The press release for the product reads: "Twelve years after 1984, Kansmen Corp. has introduced its LittleBrother software, which takes the job of monitoring cyberspace away from Big Brother and puts it into the hands of the public." Quelle: Communications Week, December 16, 1996

[Datenschleuder] [58]    1984 In 1996?