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Mark Kent mark.k...@demon.co.uk comp os linux advocacy In today's digest, we have: * [Rival] Windows Vista: Harvesting data and phoning home * [Rival] ...... 7 of section 11 of the draft | to make it possible for Novell to continue to distribute software covered | under GPLv3 as part of its deal with Microsoft.

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On Tue, 31 May 2005 11:42:21 GMT, "nemo" <n...@newtylust.nit> wrote: I haven't posted here for ages so I suppose I'd better introduce myself as a Newbie again. Flash and Media Player 7 have already gone that way for phoning home. Thanks in advance, Nemo Its a bit of software I have a love hate relationship with

Serious privacy problems in Windows Media Player for Windows XP.....
I can assure you, it's not "player hating" because of being "envious" of others attempting it and succeeding, as, on that score, the British once had ...... BBC played that pure piece of pathetic propoganda > about some soldier phoning home to propose marriage to his > girlfriend...oh, how cute...except, hello!

Media Player won't play without phoning home.
Or George Bush's claim that Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11? He smiled and ran his hair through his close cropped hair. ...... "Oh God, ET, keep phoning home!" I screeched. The waitress walked towards us, red faced as she got ready to order us out, the plates still in her hands. The lights went out,

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Steve M. Mann rockerm...@steve-mann.com mozilla test On 04/14/2006 11:02 AM, squaredancer pondered briefly and then wrote: On 14.04.2006 15:33, CET - what odd quirk of fate Cool. Seems to be working as advertised then. Should play in default player. Can't do anything about Billy phoning home though. Sorry.

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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 .... 11. Am I being spied upon? --- Imagine that every time you go online, a commercial internet application verifies its registration number against a

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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, installed only as the single player game, tries to link out when started. This is what I mean about people having perceived privacy issues and genuine security issues. They are the not the same thing. I often hear the term "phoning home" and wonder what people really thinks is

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ComputerBytesMan.com February 20, 2002 Introduction I found a number of serious privacy problems with Microsoft's Windows Media Player (WMP) for Windows XP. There does not appear to be any option in WMP to stop it from phoning home when a DVD movie is viewed. In addition, there does not appear any easy method

The FAQ for <alt.privacy.spyware> [updated January 11, 2007]
THAT.com microsoft public msn discussion On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 20:25:11 -0400, "MikeP" <sitt...@puter.com> wrote: I know moose, thanks. One reason I don't mind it I like having the outbound there also. I'm not fond of programs phoning home without my knowing it. Real Player is one that does it on a daily basis.

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I would like to know how I can remove 11 completely from computer. I have Win XP fully updated Tab I gave up at Win media player 7 because after half an hour making sure I'd unchecked everything that could make it phone home, I checked my logs and found it was phoning home anyway. That's why I'm still using 2 and

Security and Encryption FAQ - Revision 22.3
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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The act of "phoning home" can't be used to define malware, I'm afraid. It actually have to phone home to do something malicious, like reporting bank account information, From <http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/11/more-on-sony-dangerous-decloak ing.html> "I dug a little deeper and it appears the Player is

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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. Far more than does the use ..... I also strongly urge you not to use either Windows Media Player or Real Player. Both are notorious for phoning home with usage data.

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They were laughing and singing carols, phoning home and buying last-minute gifts. One eyewitness said some bought sweatshirts that read: "I survived Gander. .... (mof) Pan Am Bomb Linked to Double-Dealing CIA Drug Plot by John Picton (from the "The Toronto Star", 11/10/89) WASHINGTON - An eight-man team of CIA

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As for phoning home, my only real concern is whether any phone home secretly authenticates the Prey single-player module. ( Data gathering by Yes, it will phone home. Yes, it will authenticate the single-player module. And yes, if a pirated key is detected you will be prevented from playing the game in any way,

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VicXnews n...@news.com alt sports basketball nba la-lakers Lakers rookie center leaves butterflies behind against his idol Web Posted: 11/30/2005 12:14 AM CST 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 performance

Lakers rookie center leaves butterflies behind against his idol
Fishlips fishl...@capnandysseafoodshack.com comp security firewalls On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 10:07:53 +0100, Sebastian Gottschalk <se...@seppig.de> wrote: Fishlips wrote: On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:34:25 A personal firewall..er...packetfilter apparently stops Windows Media Player from phoning home, to give one example.

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There are lots of applications that "phone home" that isn't malware. They do so to check licenses or new versions for example. The act of "phoning home" can't be used to From <http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/11/more-on-sony-dangerous-decloak ing.html> "I dug a little deeper and it appears the Player is

Trying to Figure out What's OK and What to Block
11. INDEMNIFICATION. This Software and the Services are intended for use only with properly licensed media, content, and content creation tools. ..... If phoning home is all there is to Real's nastiness, I still don't see why they are disliked so much. That's like saying, "He's a nice guy except for repeatedly

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If you include WinME, I can see were 5% of Windows crashes 3 times a day, my friend said it about as stable as Win3.11. Now, by default, that phoning home, is turned *off* in XP IIRC, and it's a "powertool" thingy in W2K not even installed by default, and not present at *all* on W9X. so the number Gates was