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Spyware in Kazaa, Limewire, Grokster
BigMacMike writes: "The San Francisco Chronicle (via the sfgate.com website) has a story that Kazaa, LimeWire, and others have secretly hidden software in their applications that track users' browsing habits." Not the first time. The corporate response is that they literally didn't know what was in these secondary applications that they were providing to be downloaded and installed alongside their primary program. Believe it if you wish.
... for downloading all that pr0n...
hope limewire doesn't sell this info to my girlfriend...
"honey, this jenna jameson person has alot of stuff on your computer, do you work with her?"
Because if we all used FreeNet it would crash like a Microsoft built cessna flown by John Denver.
Well, how about you set an example for them?
Man, we poor Mac users miss out on all the good software.
"We are currently evaluating support for violating Mac OS users, and this document will be updated to reflect any changes."
there's more than one way to do me.
be funny if the marketing companies suddenly realizied that millions were visiting goatse.cx about 100 times a day....imagine the commercials....