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Posted by Gus on March 12, 2007, 5:06 pm
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> ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin) writes:
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>> On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.computer.security, in article
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>>> Someone on another BBS I'm on declared that Microsoft might secretly
>>> whitelist certain spyware companies. This is total BS, right ? I cannot
>>> imagine Microsoft doing this and the resulting scandal.
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>> This is a troll, right? You've had your head up-and-locked and haven't
>> bothered to read the End User License Agreement that _you_ agreed to when
>> you got windoze, and haven't bothered to know what the words "Digital
>> Rights Management" mean. That's funny.
>
>> In case you're not trolling, point your news reader to the news groups
>> "alt.privacy" and "alt.spyware". Or just hit google and find a copy of
>> the microsoft EULA - or pick up any computer magazine and find the
>> discussion about the spyware - it's not called that, because you agreed
>> that microsoft has the right to install it and can do anything they want
>> with the information they get from your computer.
>
> Ie, it is not a secret, it is something you agree to (well, that is
> actually doubtful that you agree to it, since it is part of contract of
> adhesion, and you have no opportunity to actually negotiate it, or even
> know what its terms are before purchase.)
> Ie, what it rather is that Microsoft Claims the right to disable any part
> of the operating system at its whim. Whether this would stand up in court
> is dubious, but would you want to be the one to take on Gate's billions in
> a legal fight. Might makes right in this case, especially when the
> govenment is totally unwilling to take on blatant and declared illegal
> actions by that company.
>
> Ie, by using and installing Vista, you have given away the keys to your
> computer to MS, or to whatever other agents can determine how MS can
> disable your system.
>
>> Old guy
Since we bought Microsoft os there is no law that says we must give
control to it. Therefore there would be nothing certainly immoral ,or
unlawful to controlling our own computers and whatever we choose to run
on them. Surely there are computer geniuses out there who want to make
few bucks by giving back control of our os and computers.
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