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How Much Harm Can One Web Site Do?

Posted by timothy on from the depends-on-what-os-you're-running dept.

Ben Edelman has written extensively on issues including censorship and spyware. He's got a very interesting piece on his site now about who profits from spyware, and how much spyware can be installed on a Windows XP machine when the user simply visits a single Web site using Internet Explorer.

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  1. Re:Umm... by corbettw · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    don't turn the Latin word sic into an acronym

    What are some other good "s.i.c." backronyms? Stupidly Ironic Comment, maybe?

    --
    God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.