Google-Dell browser tool 'spyware,' charges OpenDNS founder
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| A Dell user who types "digg.xom" (rather than the correct "digg.com")
| is redirected to a page that sports sponsored links plastered across
| its top, Ulevitch charged in a blog entry.
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| "Dell and Google are now installing a program on computers that
| intercepts all sorts of queries that the browser would normally
| try to resolve," said Ulevitch. "This program has no clear name
| and is very hard to uninstall. In some circles, people would call
| this 'spyware.'"
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9020919&taxonomyId=17&intsrc=kc_top
Also:
Google queried on privacy policy
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| A data protection group that advises the European Union has
| written to the search giant to express concerns.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6692063.stm
Context:
Microsoft Quietly Making Untold Millions
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| The prototype of this typosquatting scheme had failed in 2003 when
| Verisign introduced its so-called "Site Finder" service by
| redirecting all non-existent domains to a VeriSign search page.
| The program was met with a public outcry and massive resistance
| by ISPs, and Verisign was eventually forced to abandon it. But now,
| less than four years later, the concept is back with a vengeance,
| and apparently meets with very little opposition.
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http://www.dailydomainer.com/200784-microsoft-quietly-making-untold-millions.html
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