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If,and ONLY if, the application also engages in some sort of data logging/reporting (such as by "phoning home", ie, reporting information or otherwise making information available to a third For example, "SuperCookies" in Windows Media Player, although WMP is rife with other, more general, security issues.

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There are a number which do this every time they are used eg Adobe Reader and some such as Real Player that do it all the time. By far the safest solution to this is not to use The programmes I quoted are just an example of programmes phoning home. Nearly every programme released nowadays has hidden agenda's.

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The biggest problem with most users of Linux is not being able to see that movie on the Internet since you do not have Windows Media Player or Quicktime. ...... This puts them at the disadvantage of having | their computers work normally, without periodically phoning home | unannounced to see if it's OK for their

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I'm not too worried about it phoning home, if MS gets it's kicks from knowing what songs/movies I have so be it. I like the library features in the current version -- Cheers Southern Kiwi Word of wisdom from high in the mountains....you know...like a Guru...but not as old....or mystic......or wise....or high... :)

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Nevertheless, any program that "calls home" on its own is a potential security risk. Phoning home, in and of itself, is only a security risk if I am in a James Bond team made that I will always think were mistakes but, overall, it is a good operating system and has a good UI - Windows Media Player 11 excepted.

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If,and ONLY if, the application also engages in some sort of data logging/reporting (such as by "phoning home", ie, reporting information or otherwise making information available to .... Because new spyware is being developed all the time, some of it purposely designed to avoid existing spyware detectors. back 11.

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11.Am I being spied upon? 12.What are third party cookies and what do they have to do with spyware? 13.How can I keep track of what another person in the If,and ONLY if, the application also engages in some sort of data logging / reporting (such as by "phoning home", ie, reporting information or otherwise

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11.Am I being spied upon? 12.What are third party cookies and what do they have to do with spyware? 13.How can I keep track of what another person in the .... If,and ONLY if, the application also engages in some sort of data logging/reporting (such as by "phoning home", ie, reporting information or otherwise making

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If,and ONLY if, the application also engages in some sort of data logging/reporting (such as by "phoning home", ie, reporting information or otherwise .... 11. Am I being spied upon? Imagine that every time you go online, a commercial internet application verifies its registration number against a licensing server.

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If,and ONLY if, the application also engages in some sort of data logging / reporting (such as by "phoning home", ie, reporting information or otherwise making information available to a third For example, "SuperCookies" in Windows Media Player, although WMP is rife with other, more general, security issues.

Prey -- RETAIL Version --- does it phone home ???
Unfortunately one of our memory's appears to be on the blink. I'm betting yours as I bought the game day one and you are yet to ;) Offline mode was available on day one but there was a bug - it insisted on phoning home after around 30 days. There was an outcry and it was fixed in a patch. This was back in 2004.

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Announcement from beep, (#16) dated Thu Jun 9 11:03:36 1994 (bpi) initial results of the new ultra high speed mail delivery system being developed ...... Announcement from UUCP, (#50) dated Thu Jun 23 12:57:44 1994 Thu Jun 23 12:54 Undead telexes Mirkwood And ET is phoning home...;-) MadDog > Announcement from UUCP

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11. Does using both VMWare Workstation 6 and encryption slow things up? Using VMWare Workstation 6 will on occasion slow things up quite considerably. ..... They have a nasty > habit of phoning home directly with usage info, meaning bypassing Tor. > > Another tweak, in Control Panel > System > Advanced > Error

Prey -- RETAIL Version --- does it phone home ???
11.Am I being spied upon? 12.What are third party cookies and what do they have to do with spyware? 13.How can I keep track of what another person in the If,and ONLY if, the application also engages in some sort of data logging / reporting (such as by "phoning home", ie, reporting information or otherwise

Prey -- RETAIL Version --- does it phone home ???
I'm betting yours as I bought the game day one and you are yet to ;) Offline mode was available on day one but there was a bug - it insisted on phoning home after around 30 days. There was an outcry and it was fixed in a patch. This was back in 2004. Thanks, I stand corrected. Somebody discovered this interesting

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His post told you how to block the phone home routine. That has nothing to do with piracy at all. Ah, but I have no intention of buying the game right now. As for phoning home, my only real concern is whether any phone home secretly authenticates the Prey single-player module. ( Data gathering by 3dRealms of my

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Fishlips fishl...@capnandysseafoodshack.com comp security firewalls On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:47:10 +0100, Sebastian Gottschalk <se...@seppig.de> wrote: Fishlips wrote: Windows Media Player from phoning home, to give one example. Windows Media Player is not phoning home. Please provide proof of your claims.

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Austin Myers aust...@grm.net microsoft public multimedia windows mediaplayer In media player 11 there appears to be no way to stop the damn thing from phoning home with my "customer experiance". No I do NOT want to waste my time and bandwidth to phone home to the MS mothership. Is there a way to shut this garbage

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Duncan, who discovered that an 18-year-old who is 7-feet tall and 275 pounds can make life difficult in the lane, even if he is the youngest player ever to suit up in an He also back-rimmed a dunk attempt against Duncan, a fact he said precluded him from phoning home, to Plainsboro, NJ, to crow a bit about his

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REGISTRY TWEAK ==== From Infoworld: (www.infoworld. com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml) By default, WinRoute does not secure your system at all ..... the info I configured for the proxy into >their own setup, and 'phoning home' without my knowledge or consent >(latest version of Eudora does this!).