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Cloral
08-10-2002, 03:45 PM
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2002/08/microsoft.htm

There you go, straight from the FTC. The main thing that would trouble me here if I used Passport is that Microsoft claimed not to track your usage of Passport when, in fact, it did.
balzac
08-10-2002, 03:59 PM
You should be shot for using Passport to begin with.
Saffith
08-10-2002, 04:12 PM
It's not terribly surprising, really. We already knew MS knows nothing about security, and doesn't really give a damn about people.
Cloral
08-10-2002, 04:17 PM
Originally posted by balzac
You should be shot for using Passport to begin with.

I don't. I saw a report about this on CNN when I was on vacation.
balzac
08-10-2002, 04:30 PM
Not you exactly Cloral. People who use Passport. The subject "you" was undirected.
MottZilla
08-10-2002, 04:32 PM
Other than windows 98 I don't really use microsoft products anyway. Certainly not anything internet based.
Menokh
08-10-2002, 04:59 PM
Passport, ug. It's all part opf Ms's rather insecure .Net plan.

And MS lieing to me, what new about that? They've been doing that since 1996!

Even though I hate MS almost as much as I hate fanatics, I hope this does not turn into another bash MS topic, they almost always result in minor flame wars.

EDIT: this exact same thing happenned with Windows Media Player, but the FTC hasn't done anythign about it because apparently spyware is not illegal here.
gdorf
08-10-2002, 05:13 PM
Personnally, I could care less about my windows partition, it really doesn't mean much to me. Microsoft is lying to me? Hell yeah. does it effect me? Nope.

If I find any spyware in linux, however, and I will not be a happy camper. heh.
Beldaran
08-10-2002, 05:19 PM
Microsoft has been lying to me?

[checks his hotmail account....it still works]

so what?
mrz84
08-10-2002, 06:56 PM
i may use ms stuff but i mainly use my yahoo or excite email accounts over my hotmail one. it keeps getting more junk mail than i can handle. :P
Teilyr
08-10-2002, 07:03 PM
I guess it all comes down to how much you care about people watching your activity. Personally, I don't mind.. It's nothing different than when I was in school, and the teacher used to get on my ass for looking at porn during study hour.. Microsoft's just the invisable teacher.

However, the thought that Microsoft keeps 3 unfed code readers locked in a 1 room shanty with no doors out in the woods to sit there and watch where people go on the internet strikes me amusing.
mrz84
08-10-2002, 08:56 PM
indeed. :goofy:
ZZGundam
08-10-2002, 09:00 PM
Originally posted by balzac
You should be shot for using Passport to begin with.

Really, I was thinking more like Chinesse toruture chamber.
Cyclone
08-10-2002, 11:07 PM
I think there was a topic posted two days ago about this...:gavel:

Cyclone
Cloral
08-11-2002, 03:36 AM
Well, I didn't see it because the topic was buried a few pages back.

And I can't believe that someone wouldn't care if they had agreed to a legal document that later turned out to be fradulent. I mean, imagine if you drew up a legal doucument and got a few people to agree to its terms and to sign it. Later, these people found out that several of the terms of the agreement were blatently false. What would happen to you? You'd probably go to jail. Why shouldn't the same thing happen to these corporate offenders?