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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Read an email, lose your privacy
At 10:45 PM 1/10/00 -0500, Steve Sobol wrote: > >"Henry R. Linneweh" wrote: > >> http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-silicon.html > >With an excellent, and I think appropriate, quote from Sun CEO Scott >McNealy at the top of the article. > >>while I hope Scott McNealy is using hyperbole when he says, "You >>have zero privacy now. Get over it" (the PC Week "Quote of the >>Week," Feb. 1, 1999), it's not at all clear that he is. > >I hardly think McNealy is exaggerating. Our privacy has been >disappearing for years already. That's nothing. With a Java/macro-language enabled browser/e-mail/word processor/whatever application(s), a Bad Guy (tm) can collect data off your HD without your knowledge. Add standard file locations for a program with sensitive data, say Quicken, and Mr. Joe User who doesn't know how to do anything but double-click "setup.exe" and "hit enter" is in big trouble. (Especially if he likes his pr0n. :) But I think the most important thing to come out of the article is that "smuttystuff.com" is unregistered. Sounds like a great name for domain speculators if you ask me..... :) TTFN, patrick P.S. Try not to send 30+KB of HTML code to the list next time plz. -- I Am Not An Isp - www.ianai.net ISPF, The Forum for ISPs by ISPs, <http://www.ispf.com> "Think of it as evolution in action." - Niven & Pournelle (OhMyGod - Watch out 'Net, I got enable again! ;-)
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