The netscape case

[Tarwn]

Interesting that I haven't seen or heard very much about this, happened to be cruising Gibson Research's page and noticed this topic concerning the class action against Netscape/AOL concerning the SmartDownload "feature" that reported the users downloads information back to the company. Thoughts?

http://grc.com/default.htm

(second set of articles, has links to zdnet and wired as well as an interesting court document from this past october)

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[cian]

Boy, you got a big response here Tarwn!

I think they deserve a severe kick in the ass for that! It's a serious breech of privacy afaik!

As punishment they should be made to delete all their Version 4+ browsers! That'll teach them a lesson! LOL


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[cian]

Speaking of Netscape 4+ I got an email yesterday saying my site was "informative yet ironic" because it doesn't work in Netscape 4.75! Get a real browser buddy!


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http://www.endamcg.com

 

[sleipnir214]

Gibson has been fighting this good fight for the last two years. And Netscape isn't the only one doing it.

Go to

http://www.lavasoft.de

and download AdAware. (Gibson wrote the original program.)

Install AdAware and run it every time you install anything on your computer. ______________________________________________________________________

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

TANSTAAFL!

 

[MasterRacker]

Go farther than that, run AdAware weekly also to catch stuff you get from browsing. Another good program to look into is Sunbelt Software's Pest Patrol. There's a identify-only eval and a reasonably priced full program:

http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/product.cfm?id=911

Jeff
No matter how bad it is, it can always get worse ....