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Perhaps Microsoft knows too much
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| It was horrifying to read that a private company, in this case Microsoft, has
| a database record of “nearly half of the world’s instant-messaging traffic.”
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| To my knowledge, the government is not even allowed to monitor domestic
| instant-messaging without a court order. What information did Microsoft
| collect?
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http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080807/OPINION02/80806067/1008/OPINION01
All for some pointless PR hype:
We’re Far Removed From Proof of ‘Six Degrees’ Theory
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| The authors readily agreed with me that this is far from proof of the average
| distance between any two people on Earth. Some limitations of the study cause
| it to overstate our connectedness, while others serve to understate it.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/were-far-removed-from-proof-of-six-degrees-theory-391/?mod=googlenews_wsj
http://tinyurl.com/5bacdj
Related:
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
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
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