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House Passes Another Spyware Bill

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the federal-pound-me-in-the dept.

SkippyTPE writes "The AP reports that the US House of Representatives has unanimously passed a law criminalizing Spyware. This is the second such bill in two days (the first imposing civil penalties, whereas this bill imposes criminal penalties). Information on the bills (HR2929 and HR4661) can be found here and here respectively."

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  1. Hold on there buckaroo... by asdfasdfasdfasdf · · Score: 0, Troll
    "...estimates that up to 90 percent of computers contain some forms of spyware.."

    It is good thing that 10% of the market is either running an alternative browser and/or operating system


    Just because someone is running IE & XP doesn't mean they have spyware. There are a few out there who are capable of not clicking "install the we-swear-its-not-spyware searchbar" to view their free pr0n.

    I'm not saying that I've never inadvertantly picked up some nasty things when using IE, I have done a decent job of making sure it's cleaned out regularly.

    IE is very vulnerable, no doubt, but it's not like it includes spyware on the install. (BTW, I'm now running Firefox 90% of the time for speed/tabbing/features reasons, and I keep ie around for the pages that don't quite render right or the media files that don't quite play friendly)

  2. exactly what you think... by bani · · Score: 0, Troll

    or a computer used in interstate or foreign commerce or communication

    um, DUH? wasn't obvious enough for you?

    learn to read?