> Good point. This is the discovery mechanism that iTunes uses to share music > on the subnet.
Except that I have no need for this and Apple thinks it below them to even deign to ask the lowly user if they don't want to install Bonjour. > If the iTunes installer starting dropping patches into other applications > without warning, this would be another thing, but they do not do that. It already does this with Bonjour. It installs a networking component directly into Windows without any prior warning. That's taking pages from the Real Player handbook. > This M$ intrusion and Sony's root-kit exploit are the only cases I know of > where a major software company had the balls to try something like this. **cough** SAFARI **cough** The Annoyances page that John links to has a comment from the author about MobileMe doing the same thing. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
