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January 28th, 2002, 01:46 AM
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the most offensive software
The most offensive software award, goes to Audio Galaxy
Audio Galaxy has now joined the ranks of those pillars of personal privacy, who are saying “Dahh, I didn’t know!”
Onflow, a company whose “Web Enhancing” software is widely distributed with most file sharing and other ad-sponsored programs, and installed with or without your permission, has included in it’s bundle a little gem called VX2.
VX2 serves pop-up ads that appear to be coming from the site you’re visiting, and as it does this is sends a report back to its home base. ‘Typical’ you might say, except for the fact that included in this report is any info you submitted in any on-line form. Web based Email, site log-ins, online purchases are all done using on-line forms.
By making itself a plug-in to your web browser, it can pass through a firewall unhindered, to deliver its package.
Maybe it’s just me, but this really can’t be legal! Can it?
Read the full story here:
http://www.poenews.com/inhouse/vx2.htm
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,49960,00.html
Bukhari:V3B48N826 “The Prophet said, ‘Isn’t the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a man?’ The women said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘This is because of the deficiency of a woman’s mind.’”
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