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Re: Who Owns Your Computer?

__/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Tuesday 25 July 2006 16:58 \__

> Quote:
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> Internet security: It recently came out that the firewall in Microsoft
> Vista will ship with half its protections turned off. Microsoft claims
> that large enterprise users demanded this default configuration, but
> that makes no sense. It's far more likely that Microsoft just doesn't
> want adware -- and DRM spyware -- blocked by default.
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> End quote
> 
> http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/05/who_owns_your_c.html
 
This is item is from May, but regardless, have a look:

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/30/1329229

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| "For the last two weeks, Microsoft has been in talks to buy Claria, an
| adware marketer formerly called Gator, and best known for its pop-up ads
| and software that tracks people visiting Web sites..."
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Best wishes,

Roy

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