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Technology Stocks : WAVX Anyone? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Trippi who wrote (6909)	5/20/1999 10:16:00 PM
From: Cosmo Daisey	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 11417

I understand privacy pretty well and a program that searches your hard drive and reports to the company using WAVX software the web sites you have visited is an invasion of privacy. The American Civil Liberties Union will have a field day with this one. Compuserve had a search program that would report your visits but the difference is you were informed up front that it would happen and you had a choice of not buying their service. In the case of WAVX as I understand it they will sell the software to anyone who wants it and someone visiting a web site that employs the software would invade your privacy without your knowledge. Its like someone listening in to your phone conversation and hearing you talk to a car dealer and then telling all the car dealers in your area that you are in the market for a car. Web sites that employ this software will have less visits and be reading their name on a law suit. Pentium III allowed access to your computer and invaded your privacy in a similar way. President Clinton lost his privacy, he didn't give it up when he was elected, it was taken from him. If his privacy was taken so easily just imagine what they will do to you with this invasion software. Is it a crime to visit a XXX site? How about if you type in a wrong URL and get a child porno site by mistake? Lets say the police or the FBI has WAVX software and does routine "examinations" of computers, do you want to explain to the local police in our rapidly becoming police state that you typed in the wrong address? Who's business is it anyway. How about after your visit you are swamped with email and snail mail offering pornographic material? Perhaps you will be put on a list of people who visit XXX sites on the internet and have your name posted on the internet. How about if you are curious about hand gun availability? Can you explain that to someone, do you want to? How about that college paper you are writing about subversive material available on the net? Visit a few of those sites and explain it to the FBI when they do a search of hard drives. Do you want to be on a list of known subversive site visitors? When the software is introduced this stock will get hit hard when the privacy issue hits CNBC. It just could be a $2 stock again. cdaiseyPhD@firewall.com