Re: Fw: THE WEEK IN REVIEW: Beware of Net
- Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Apr 06, 2002
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On 6 Apr 2002, at 18:49, rforno at tutopia.com wrote: > > THE WEEK IN REVIEW: Beware of NetEuman: > You disbelieved what Martin Stachon said. Maybe it's not true, but the > following > report is, I think, serious enough. Best regards. <snip> > CNET | NEWS.COM WEEK IN REVIEW > The Entire Tech Week in a Single Email > Saturday, April 6, 2002 > File swappers this week were alarmed to discover that a California > company has quietly attached its software to > millions of downloads of the popular Kazaa file-trading program and plans to > remotely "turn on" people's PCs, welding them into a new network of its own. >From an older url: To continue using the FastTrack network, you need either KaZaA or Grokster. However, both programs are notorious for installing "spyware" which monitors your Internet activity and reports this to advertising companies. > In the latest privacy debate, the delivery of "cookies" through > e-mail has raised concerns. Web sites have long > planted cookies on consumers' hard drives to tailor Internet pages for > returning > visitors and better target ads. Now, enhanced messages that share the look and > feel of Web pages are delivering the same bits of code through e-mail, in many > cases without regard for safeguards that have been developed to protect > consumer > privacy on the Web. Yeas, well, those of us who pointed this out years ago were called "paranoid alarmists". What are we called now? <snip> > Microsoft announced that President and Chief Operating Officer > Rick > Belluzzo will leave the software maker as > part of a reorganization. Microsoft did not name a replacement for the > executive, who managed many of the company's consumer products and services at > various times, including MSN, the Xbox game console, and Microsoft's > interactive > TV projects. Oddly, he wants to start a new business, in competition with MS, and is already in legal trouble with MS. Kat