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dpyers 
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Posted: 10 February 2006 at 1:07am |
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Lead me not into temptation... I know the short cut, follow me.
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MortiOli
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Posted: 10 February 2006 at 7:04am |
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If they do more research into it, I'm all for it
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Posted: 10 February 2006 at 1:49pm |
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if it's on the web it ain't private anyhoo.
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Posted: 10 February 2006 at 5:23pm |
I seem to recall it uses Alexa technology so it can't be that good 
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Scotty32
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Posted: 10 February 2006 at 10:47pm |
 ctscott wrote:
if it's on the web it ain't private anyhoo. |
but...
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Little-known data-collection system could troll news, blogs, even e-mails. Will it go too far? |
email isnt on the "web" publicly..
news, blogs etc isnt THAT much of a "privacy" issue, but id be worried about emails
also, does anyone know what the US Gov would do about foreign sites? is it just american sites? or does it go global?
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Posted: 11 February 2006 at 8:34am |
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police state we call it.. like the KGB ruled.. now the CIA will
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Posted: 11 February 2006 at 1:27pm |
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After 9/11 there were articles about how the US Gov. got MS to agree to install things for them that wouldn't show up as a running process. Also got the major AV vendors to agree that they wouldn't detect the Gov. stuff.
IIRC, there was supposed to be some sort of activation for a particular pc before it started doing whatever it was supposed to do but who knows how it was finally implemented. I doubt that's it's been universally activated though - too many open source process monitors available - someone would have found it.
On the other hand, there's nothing that says it has to run in normal address space if the OS and/or the chip manufacturers allow it to run in restricted or reserved space. I remember coding stuff like that in assembler.
Bottom line is that there's nothing about your PC that makes it immune from monitoring unless you never connect to anything.
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Posted: 11 February 2006 at 2:19pm |
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