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FTC Officials Wary of Spyware Measures
Nofsck Ingcloo writes "News.com is reporting thusly:
'Two Federal Trade Commission officials ignited a political firestorm on Thursday by criticizing proposed laws targeting spyware and suggesting that the measures might harm legitimate software products, too.' During an appearance before a House of Representatives panel, FTC Commissioner Mozelle Thompson said the measures were the wrong approach to spyware and adware. Basically he is advocating a 'don't throw the baby out with the bath water' approach."
"According to a search on Lexis/Nexis [lexisnexis.com] (paid search; subscription required) Claria Corporation donated $10,000 to Mozelle Thompson's campaign and WhenU.com donated $20,000."
And why does this not suprise me?
Yes, but the bug reporting in Mozilla asks your permission before it sends any data. Also it allows you to preview what it is going to send
The best way for them to understand it is to tell them that spyware does what the government needs a warrant to do.
It suddenly occured to me that the reason I haven't been modded up is that many of you are probably unfamiliar with new.net.
Find more information here.
About a particularly nasty form of spyware.
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
Nice troll.
For those who don't know what new.net is about, it's basically a company which offers custom domains. Their spyware installs a layer which takes over all DNS resolving and redirects it to their servers.
A housemate of mine got infected with New.net. He could no longer log in to the university network, because Internet access was not allowed until logged in and thus the request to resolve the domain name of the log-in server could not reach new.net. This is what happens when stupid people write software without considering all scenarios.
What campaign? Since commissioners are appointed, why do they need to campaign? Or was this for some earlier run for office?