Word: programming
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...moment, monitoring for most companies means tracking e-mail and Net use. Elron Software of Burlington, Mass., makes Message Inspector, a program that sniffs out inappropriate terms--as defined by whoever owns it--from incoming and outgoing e-mails. When it finds one, the program obliterates the e-mail or records it in a company database. San Diego firm Websense offers Websense Enterprise, a Trekkie name for a program that blocks access to inappropriate Web pages and logs every minute employees spend on each site...
Just how sophisticated is the technology? Look at what Corporate Defense Strategies of Maywood, N.J., has on offer. Last year managers at a New York City import-export company suspected it was being robbed by two employees. CDS advised the firm to install Investigator, a software program that could furtively log every single stroke of the suspects' computer keys and send an encrypted e-mail report to CDS. Investigator revealed that the two were deleting orders from the corporate books after they were processed, pocketing the revenues and building their own company from within. The program picked up on their...
Investigator is the brainchild of WinWhatWhere Corp. in Kennewick, Wash. It monitors all PC activity, including programs running, and traces any files that are being copied and moved, deleted or renamed. Says creator Richard Eaton: "We're monitoring your off-line Solitaire game, things you've written in a chat room, documents you print on the company letterhead that you don't even save." Investigator retails for as little as $99 a copy and comes with an optional banner to notify anyone under surveillance of its presence. But the program will also do bizarre things to stay concealed, such...
...keys and inquired about their classes and career goals. Though Woods, an economics major, left school after two years, he has promised his parents that he will get his degree. He told TIME that he is looking into finishing his undergraduate requirements through a University of California online-learning program. "I'd like to be able to do that," he says. "We'll just have to see if it's realistic...
...Tombstone or San Francisco. Here he's surrounded by other gents of a certain age: hotdogging fly-boys of the '50s named Hawk (Tommy Lee Jones), Jerry (Donald Sutherland) and Tank (James Garner) who were pioneers in Air Force research but got passed over for the first U.S. astronaut program. An old Soviet satellite is about to crash to earth, threatening humanity; since Frank built the technology the Russkies swiped, his expertise is needed. He insists on going up to fix the damn thing and taking his pals along for a senior-citizen road trip to outer space. The Over...