Re: Fw: THE WEEK IN REVIEW: Beware of Net
On 6 Apr 2002, at 18:49, rforno at tutopia.com wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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
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