Microsoft mind reading
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| Not content with running your computer, Microsoft now wants to read your mind
| too.
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http://www.newscientist.com/blog/invention/2007/10/microsoft-mind-reading.html
Digital slaves. That's the dangers of letting companies control everything...
even control (restrict) access to our photos and other media, let alone the
brain. You can't even trust this company with that spyware called Vista, even
updates with a mechanism that is misused.
What’s really broken with Windows Update - Trust
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| Some people feel that stealth updates and pushing WGA to users under the
| guise of a security update is paving the way for all sorts of nasty and
| restrictive DRM mechanisms to be pushed down the system.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=855
Class action over WGA is apparently on its way.
Is Windows Media Player 11 Watching You?
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| I thought Microsoft stuck to monitoring Vista systems but XP could be under
| surveillance too. If you have read my previous articles this should come as
| no surprise.
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http://nixedblog.thenixedreport.com/?p=92
Related:
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| Vista--Microsoft’s latest operating system--may prove to be most
| appropriately named, especially for those seeking evidence of how a
| computer was used.
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http://www.abanet.org/journal/ereport/jy13tkjasn.html
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Forget-about-the-WGA-20-Windows-Vista-Features-and-Services-Harvest-User-Data-for-Microsoft-58752.shtml
Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems
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| The adware framework would leave almost no data untouched in its quest to
| sell you stuff. It would inspect "user document files, user e-mail files,
| user music files, downloaded podcasts, computer settings, computer status
| messages (e.g., a low memory status or low printer ink)," and more. How could
| we have been so blind as to not see the marketing value in computer status
| messages?
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070717-microsoft-patents-the-mother-of-all-adware-systems.html
Will Microsoft Put The Colonel in the Kernel?
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| "The kernel meets The Colonel in a just-published Microsoft patent
| application for an Advertising Services Architecture, which delivers targeted
| advertising as 'part of the OS.'
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/14/043200
New software can identify you from your online habits
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| That is the spectre raised by new research conducted by Microsoft.
| The computing giant is developing software that could accurately
| guess your name, age, gender and potentially even your location,
| by analysing telltale patterns in your web browsing history. But
| experts say the idea is a clear threat to privacy - and may be
| illegal in some places.
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http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=mg19426046.400&feedId=being-human_rss20
http://tinyurl.com/2lrazk
Microsoft Responds to Re-discovery of Vista Network Slowdowns
http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_Responds_to_Rediscovery_of_Vista_Network_Slowdowns/1188244273
Yahoo in China human rights case
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| A human rights group in the US is suing Yahoo for alleged complicity in
| rights abuses and acts of torture in China.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6966116.stm
Chinese Internet dissident committed to mental hospital
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| "It is not acceptable that Chinese authorities use such methods to silence
| citizens who have merely peacefully voiced their opinions", expressed the
| organisation in an announcement. Apparently authorities have not abandoned
| the practice of punishing those who have exposed the abuse of power and
| defied censorship by compulsorily committing them to mental institutions.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/94864/from/rss09
Microsoft could be teaching police to hack Vista
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| Microsoft may begin training the police in ways to break the
| encryption built into its forthcoming Vista operating system.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2150555/microsoft-teaching-police-hack
UK holds Microsoft security talks
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| "UK officials are talking to Microsoft over fears the new version of
| Windows could make it harder for police to read suspects' computer files."
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4713018.stm
Is Microsoft’s Windows “Genuine Advantage” program installed on your computer?
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| Microsoft’s “Genuine Advantage” program is now being challenged by a number
| of Windows XP users in Federal court. If you are interested in helping in
| this effort to hold Microsoft accountable for using your computer to help
| Microsoft chase down software pirates without asking for your permission,
| contact us.
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http://www.classactionconnect.com/?q=node/715
Microsoft, Yahoo Tailor Ads To Users' Behavior
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| Google will remain on the sidelines — at least for now. But its Web portal
| rivals are stepping up their efforts to use behavioral targeting to make
| display, or banner, ads more relevant to Web site visitors.
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http://investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=17&issue=20070823
Yahoo!, Microsoft ink web pact with Chinese government
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| Microsoft and Yahoo! have signed a pact with the Chinese government
| that "encourages" the big name web players to record the identities of
| bloggers and censor content. So says Reporters Without Borders, an
| organization that fights for journalistic rights across the globe.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/yahoo_and_microsoft_ink_chinese_blogging_pact/
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