One of my coworkers at my last job was involved on writing a piece of such "bossware" (although nothing as extreme as the examples in the article). It used some

One of my coworkers at my last job was involved on writing a piece of such "bossware" (although nothing as extreme as the examples in the article). It used some WMI interfaces to track what users were doing. He seemed to express at least some level of uncomfort with it, but ultimately wrote it anyway.