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MS Settles With FTC Over Passport Privacy Complaints
There will be a number of stories out shortly (here's an early one) noting that Microsoft has settled with the FTC over privacy complaints relating to Microsoft Passport. Short summary: Microsoft made lots of false representations about the security of Passport, and collected more information than it disclosed in its privacy policy, and now must be penalized in the usual Microsoft fashion - they must promise not to do it again. The FTC's settlement page has the complaint and settlement documents. We've covered this extensively - All Your Bits Are Belong to Us, EPIC's complaints about the integration of Windows XP and Passport, Microsoft Defends Passport, EPIC pushing state attorneys general to act against Passport, etc. In fact EPIC has an entire page devoted to Passport. The FTC settlement requires two main things: that Microsoft adopt basic security practices (what were they doing before?), and that Microsoft be audited by a third-party to assure compliance - perhaps it will be TrustE, since Passport's privacy policy remains approved by TrustE.
First Passport.
fp?
you will keep using it and you know it.
tcl is like an airline crash where everyone survives, but all are crippled beyond recognition and are unable to live productive or enjoyable lives thereafter.
Recent conversations with dead souls have informed me that when child molesters die, they are required to maintain tcl code for the rest of eternity.
tcl is significantly worse than Visual Basic; it's worse than ANY basic. tcl combines all the worst features of all known IHLL's (Idiotically High Level Languages) into one great big undifferentiated wart. The only near contender in this respect is Perl, but even Perl is miles behind tcl in unusability, incoherence, impotence, and deliberate pathological ugliness.
tcl is the most loathsome spawn of a syphillitic camel that ever crawled into my garage and died on a hot summer day, releasing a venomous fetor that defies not merely description but comprehension as well.
tcl eats cockroaches for breakfast and vomits up poisonous toads. tcl will pee in your cheerios. tcl will lie with your wife and she will bring forth monsters.
tcl sucks. Don't even talk to me about tcl.
Look, if you're going for the first post, just say "first post!" and move on. Don't try to be on topic, you end up looking like an ass.
Your post made sense, sort of, but you're not fooling anyone.
Situations like this always remind me of a anecdote from australia.
If you want to cook a lizard, put it in a pot of cold water, and then slowly raise the temperature. The criter, being cold blooded, will not notice the temperature change as its body will follow the external temperature shifts.
Now if you would throw a lizard in a pot filled with boiling water, it sure would notice, and run the hell away..
The same goes for most bad relationships humans find them selves in. If you would end up in the situation you are in now instantly, you would scream bloody murder, and never accept it!
However, since change happens slowly and small step by small step, people always seem to think "well that little bit extra doesn't make the difference". And you end up in an incredible nightmare, without realising it !
I gues in a way this describes the situation that most people find them selves in with microsoft. They don't know what happened since it never happened in one go.. They don't realise just how disfunctional the relationship is.
Some day people might wake up, but historical evidence would dictate this will not happen untill we are in a LOT bigger mess then we would ever consider acceptable from the start.
More drivel from the Babbler-In-Chief:
Drug Users Are Terrorists
The US government is stepping up its attempt
to link the war on drugs and the war on terrorism.
Its office of national drug control policy
is running advertisements which tell
Americans that by buying drugs they may be
financing terrorists - whether
you're shooting heroin, snorting
cocaine, taking Ecstasy or sharing
a joint in your friend's back yard.
Be Patriotic: Smoke Amerikan Grown Marijuana !
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