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Who Invests in Spyware Companies?
NW writes "Ben Edelman just published a list of major investors in spyware companies totaling over $139 million in venture capital." Slashdot has not verified Edelman's information, and please note that harassing the receptionist at these places is unlikely to cause any change in their investment policies.
I wonder who invests in Weatherbug, the notorious spyware company that spams message boards saying "we are not spyware" ? (They have yet to install spyware that says "we do not spam").
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
MI5, FBI, CIA, the usual dated TLA arm's of the illuminati
Reads like a hit list.
I give it ten minutes for the DDOS to start.
When the Editors verify it, they link the story as a duplicate post.
And by the way forward-looking companies invest in parallel incremental options for years and at base level, this just comes down to facilitating third-generation processing.
My company has been giving millions of dollars to a company in Redmond Washington and some of that cash is being redirected to support a malware product known only as "Internet Explorer."
-dynamo
Aren't anonymour remailers reserved for letters from secret admirers?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Weatherbug is very different from Adaware. In fact, Adaware from lavasoft.de is a program which has identified Weatherbug as spyware. While Adaware is not perfect, i don't find it to be annoying. Adaware is not to be confused with Ada software.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
1/3 of jokes get modded OT. If you get the joke, mod 1 in 3 insightful/interesting/underrated to restore karma balance.
Wouldn't the software that real spies use be called spyware?
Are they offended at the usurping of the spyware moniker by other, less wholesome individuals?
Hello all, Mr. Coward here, just letting you know that I am not an axe murderer. Really, I'm not. Never even thought about it. I have no idea where the bodies are. Really, I'm not an axe murderer.
In all seriousness, I tell you, I'm not an axe murderer.
No seriously, I'm not. I don't even own an axe.
I don't know why this is so hard for people to understand. I'm not an axe murderer.
I'm not an axe murderer. Really.
"It is a testament to the quality of my opinions that people attack my grammar and spelling."
Actually I would think that it would be a testament to the quality of the grammar and spell checker being used.
Sarcasm aside, it seems that venture companies will throw money at any project that has a well-formatted proposal. For example, all the VCO funds that were given to Santa Cruz Operation SCO when they claimed that they owned Linux. They did this after Microsoft gave them a lot of money in the background.
Slashdot? Verify? Could this be the start of a new policy of accurate and responsible reporting at Slashdot? Maybe the CBS Report put things in perspective for them.
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People don't care what tech companies are on it. People are still gonna support Apple,Palm and Sun no matter what they do. But if Microsoft did the same, people would be up in arms.
Have you ever been to a turkish prison?