April 8th, 2004, 06:17 PM
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Re: OT: SPYWARE/TROJAN and Off Topic!
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Originally posted by Peter Ebbesen:
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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
All this does is a key check of its own software. I have trouble considering that to be in the Category of "spying".
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It is taking over the user's hardware for purposes of reporting home without the Users knowledge or consent. No matter how miniscule the amount of data sent home, that is spying.
No I cant go with that definition. Sounds good enough but Ive never seen spyware defined that way except in some extreme Groups.
In the usenet newsGroups we usually use the definitions given by Wikipedia, or in the hacker newsGroups the definitions given in the Jargon File, as being "official" for purposes of discussion.
Here are both....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyware
http://www.alt-hacker.org/~noadle/ja...S/spyware.html
I have checked and I see no evidence that anything is being sent which isnt already Illwinters. No snooping info.
[ April 08, 2004, 17:20: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]
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