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____/ Sinister Midget on Wednesday 10 September 2008 09:27 : \____
> On 2008-09-10, Robin T Cox <nomail@xxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
>> Microsoft Pushes Digital IDs for Kids Online
>>
>> Internetnews.com
>> 8 Sept 2008
>>
>> http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3769331
>>
>><quote>
>> A Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) white paper suggesting that children get digital
>> identity cards to verify their age and better protect them online. But not
>> everyone is convinced it's the right approach.
>>
>> Microsoft's suggestion ... came in July in response to the ISTF's call for
>> solutions. The plan would require that government, schools, or private
>> companies certify children's identities and ages based on personal
>> documents like birth certificates.
>>
>> Microsoft told InternetNews.com that it has provided a copy of the white
>> paper to the European Union as well.
>>
>> Those efforts followed reports that sexual predators were targeting
>> children on MySpace.
>></quote>
>>
>> Now, find such reports, if you can, and then read the details.
>>
>> So, why would they really want the IDs and details of all the world's
>> minors?
>
> Beyond their own motives, it looks like a wonderful database of targets
> for the kid-diddlers of the world. And with MICROS~1's famed
> see-cue-ritty, it would be just a matter of hours before every pervert
> on the planet had his/her own copy.
That's peanuts. They already break privacy laws.
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.”
|
| 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
Then again, Microsoft harvests lots more:
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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