Wednesday, January 23, 2002
|7:44 PM|
GODDAMMIT
GODDAMMIT AS WELL
Christ, and I thought I was angry about Real Player. I wanted to, at some point, punish Real Networks for their vile deeds. But the crap outlined in the first link there is downright criminal. And even if the company claims that it doesn't collect credit card info,
They are still broadcasting personal data in an un-encrypted form for anyone who is looking for it to find. Sure, they may delete credit card numbers, but what if I took a bit of a look through this application's guts, and found a way to monitor it's transmissions? I could be grabbing everything you ever send in a form. Web Based Email, blogger entries, user name and passwords to a variety of sites. Everything, all screamed out from your browser. I take precautions, I run ad-aware, but even ad-aware had no idea about this little bastard. And my virus scanner isn't going to pick it up, it looks just like IE! Jesus, this is the sort of deep dark secret that could be horribly abused by people in the know. Sure, demographic information collection is unavoidable, but I'd rather not be forwarding every web based email I send and every form I modify to whoever wants it.
I was going to talk about some exciting new inventions we came up with in the office today, all very cool, very marketable, and some are, well, kinky. But I have to go to a poker game and work out my frustrations with some good, solid, gambling.
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///Say this is the swap from 2001 to 2002, that should close up the 2001 links.
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