WMP Spyware - yahoo article

[FuckMSTillTheyDie]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20020222/tc_nf/16455

[jtpenrod]

It just keeps getting curiouser and curiouser. There's an old saying that whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. Looks like Macro$uck is headed for the big self-destruct. After all that's happened so far, how could they be stupid enough to think they could get away with it?  :rolleyes:  It shouldn't be too much longer till there's no M$ left to kick around anymore      

[Calum]

i reckon they can hold the fort for a while yet, now!
all the windows users have been conditioned to put up with all this crap you know, a little thing like this won't stop many people from continuing to use windows, what we really need is a campaign to educate those dumbed down users about their choices.
Most people need to realise that the comparitive ease of use of a linux system, for example, would offset the difficulty of windows to linux transition.

[FuckMSTillTheyDie]

Here's a good link to how MS is slowly but surely raping our privacy to continue to be M$..they act like little kids caught with their hands in the cookie jar (no pun intended)..each time they get caught spying or invading our privacy they deny and lie...but they keep putting all the pieces together..direct marketers (synonym for sleazy shit) call this profiling...they sell your personal information and/or profile to sleazy porn advertisers (well, not all are porn)

http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/index.htm

[ March 02, 2002: Message edited by: FuckMSTillTheyDie ]

[jtpenrod]

quote: direct marketers (synonym for sleazy shit) call this profiling...they sell your personal information and/or profile to sleazy porn advertisers (well, not all are porn)

Interesting you should mention that. Last spring, I got a Microsoft IntelliMouse. (No, I didn't buy it, it was given to me  :rolleyes:  ) I made the mistake of registering the damn thing over the 'Net. To this day, I keep getting these E-mails for porn sites - *every* single one of them from hotmail  :mad:  

How in the HELL does registering a mouse indicate an interest in "seeing teen-aged girls getting fucked" ferinstance?  :eek:  (I don't have to go to any one of those sites to know they aren't talking about luscious 14-year-olds; but rather ugly-ass 19-year olds who can't "get any" in any other way    ) I know it has to be registering the IntelliMouse as I *never* got even one such E-mail before then. Not only do they invade your privacy, they can't even keep their data bases straight  

[psyjax]

quote:Originally posted by jtpenrod:
I don't have to go to any one of those sites to know they aren't talking about luscious 14-year-olds; but rather ugly-ass 19-year olds who can't "get any" in any other way        )

ok, your 44 right?

WHY THE HELL ARE YOU INTERESTED IN "LUSIOUS" 14 YEAR OLDS!!!!!! Hell, when I was 16 I wasen't interested in them....

your creeping me out man    :eek:

[ March 04, 2002: Message edited by: psyjax ]

[jtpenrod]

quote: your creeping me out man <http://forum.fuckmicrosoft.com/ubb/eek.gif>
 

Read what I wrote again, why don't you? I said no such thing! The *entire* point of that post is that I'm thoroughly   :mad:  That this shit constantly lands in my inbox. I have never *ABSOLUTELY NEVER* visited any porno site in the entire time I've been on-line. And I god-damn well *NEVER* did *anything* that any reasonably intelligent person could construe as indicating an interest in this sort of thing. Except for registering that Macro$uck mouse.

As to what you quoted from my previous post, just WTF else do you think the senders of these E-mails could be implying by wording it that way?

In fact, *that* was the point. How is it that Macro$uck allows their hotmail clients to post these unsolicited E-mails containing this material of not only dubious legality, but an affront to most sane moral standards?

From now on, I suggest you boot up your brain before you boot up your computer.

[dbl221]

For what its worth, hacking Hotmail is a hobby for some of my class mates.....they seem to enjoy themselves.  

[psyjax]

quote:Originally posted by jtpenrod:

From now on, I suggest you boot up your brain before you boot up your computer.

, guess I will then  

I mean't it in sarcasm, I wasn't serious, hence the little smily face on the post. I was just trying to be funny. Honestly didn't mean to offend.

[Brent]

Any time I end up with that crap on my computer it is usually a result of something my teenage son has been into.. Then try and get rid of it... pop-up... pop-up on and on.....Hot mail is beyond a doubt the worst mail server on the net.. I never use it.. but others in the family do. Once in a while when im not home, they get on my computer.  Interesting trail they leave behind!!

[Brent]

If microsoft is, as reported here, spying on every individual user that has a MS OS, they must have one HELL of a staff!!  If it is being done electronically, they must have some extemely talented programmers and engineers!! I cant help but wonder how much of this is paranoia and how much is true.  I would suspect a lot of the information compiled by MS or Realplayer is used to develope new software, based on what the public wants and will purchase.  I would do the same thing.  Its just the way things work today and its not going to change. Its done by everyone.  Go to the "doubleclick" website and see who some of their customers are.  Its something everyone has to accept. Either that, or hide under the bed and not purchase anything from a major store chain and stay off the computer!

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by FuckMSTillTheyDie:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20020222/tc_nf/16455

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