"The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has busted a strange set of spyware purveyorsUS retailing giants Sears and Kmart.
The FTC this week approved its final consent order against the companies (which share the same owner) over an episode that can only be chalked up to incompetence of a truly epic scope. Sears Holding Management Company decided that it could really use a lot more marketing data to fuel its decision-making process, so it began offering visitors to sears.com and kmart.com a special invitesign up for "My SHC Community," download a piece of "research" software, and earn 10 American dollars. That's right10... American... dollars" --clip-- More at http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09/ftc-forces-sears-kmart-out-of-the-spyware-business.ars Juha-Matti _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
