This would probably not be that hard to enforce on software distributed over the Internet. Since the majority of spyware companies are based in the USA (as is with most businesses which use the internet) they could easily be required to do this. It wouldn't be that hard to get someone in court for not doing this.
Although I doubt that the government would do anything, I'm just saying that they could.
but it doesn't appear evident to me how the binary code would be executed if the audio file is opened inside of a music player.
Unless said code exploits a vulnerability in said music player program. Although this is highly unlikely (but wasn't there a similar thing with JPEG files).
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This would probably not be that hard to enforce on software distributed over the Internet. Since the majority of spyware companies are based in the USA (as is with most businesses which use the internet) they could easily be required to do this. It wouldn't be that hard to get someone in court for not doing this.
Although I doubt that the government would do anything, I'm just saying that they could.
but it doesn't appear evident to me how the binary code would be executed if the audio file is opened inside of a music player.
Unless said code exploits a vulnerability in said music player program. Although this is highly unlikely (but wasn't there a similar thing with JPEG files).
Tell SCO that the asteroid is inhabited by aliens running unlicensed copies of Linux who are refusing to pay the $699 license fee.
Although I doubt this would work as SCO haven't actually done much. Still, we should send them up there anyway to get rid of Darl Mc Bride.
The moon has never existed at all. It's all a conspiracy.
Would you groom your colleagues to diffuse tensions at work?
Well if your job has been outsourced to india, probably not.