At 07:58 -0700 2002/05/03, Steve Schear wrote: >[An example of why intelligent appliances in the home, not based on >open source may be dangerous. Spyware Inside (sm) ] > >Court orders video spying >SONICBLUE TO SURVEY CUSTOMER RECORDERS >By Dawn C. Chmielewski >Mercury News > >A federal magistrate in Los Angeles has ordered SonicBlue to spy on >thousands of digital video recorder users -- monitoring every show >they record, every commercial they skip and every program they send >electronically to a friend. > >http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/3189274.htm
Go read SonicBlue's privacy policy -- they claim to already record all that information and that they will hand it over if ordered by a court or would rat you out if they thought you were doing something illegal. http://www.sonicblue.com/company/privacy.asp -- J. Eric Townsend -- http://www.spies.com/jet Were you in USASSG/ACSI/MACV in Vietnam, 1967-1970? Drop me a line if so...
