Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 11:58:58 03/24/00
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On March 24, 2000 at 14:51:21, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On March 24, 2000 at 11:12:50, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>On March 24, 2000 at 06:15:29, Tina Long wrote: >> >>>Thanks again for alerting me to this Spyware mob! "....we assure you that this >>>information is never used...." >>> >>>Bloody Wow! >> >>Hmmm. >> >>It appears that you did not read the entire article, which basically states that >>this "spyware" does not send any useful information anywhere. >> >>-Tom > >This "spyware", by Aureals own admission, creates the ability to grab personal >information. Your "does not send any useful information anywhere" is based on >Aureals assurance that this capability is not being abused. Okay so you want to >believe them. That's fine. However, Aureal has created a security hole in >peoples systems and Optout is a means of pluging that hole up. It is a quite >reasonable decision to do so. That may be overly-cautious. On the other hand, >those that are more trusting may be overly gullible. I prefer to err on the side >of being overly-cautious. > >There have been more than one articles on the internet referring to peoples >reaction to Aureal as "hysteria", but this ignores the fact that the security >hole created by their software is quite real. I don't understand why anyone >would want stand by and let a security hole persist on their system when there >is a means of fixing it. Nuts! It's "Aureate', not "Aureal". Oh well. So maybe I need to use OptOut on my brain too ;)
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