Thien-Thi Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From: Joe Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 04:41:35 GMT > > [...] now collecting private information from those who use it [...] > > below is some code that does essentially the same thing. i don't run > this stuff personally, i just write it (to remind myself and others of > the methods of the watchers lest they be forgotten). keep your friends > close, and all that... > > if someone would be also uncomfortable running this, would they be less > uncomfortable not having access to the source code? oop ack! >
On thing which often strikes me is the speed with which people will willingly download and install software, even when in source form, without actually knowing anything about the author or how trustworthy they are and will just run the softwre without checking the sources.. I've often wondered, for an experiment, what results you woul dget if you created a handy little utility, but embedded within it som ecode which gathered information about the user and mailed it to some remote site. Tim -- Tim Cross The e-mail address on this message is FALSE (obviously!). My real e-mail is to a company in Australia called rapttech and my login is tcross - if you really need to send mail, you should be able to work it out! _______________________________________________ Gnu-emacs-sources mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-emacs-sources
