Thought I'd pass this on in case some of you don't get The Langa List. It's getting scary in cyberspace! Rita Warning! More ISPs Follow Juno's Lead! Remember Juno's plan to consume all the spare CPU cycles in their subscriber's PCs? (See "Peer-To-Peer's Dark Side" at http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20010222S0004 ) In that article, I said "I believe that Juno may prove to be only the first of many such backdoor attempts to cobble together P2P networks that do little or nothing to benefit the people lassoed -- perhaps unwittingly -- into the network, but that offer enormous benefit to the companies setting up the stealth P2P networks." Well, it's already starting. LangaList reader Clarence Lowe found that out when he paid close attention to his ISP's signup page: After reading your article on Juno's latest attempt to invade the privacy of (and not to mention lying to) of their subscribers, I guess I was on the lookout for similar "terms of service" in other isp's. Check out this one under "How it works". http://www.highstream.net/ That section states: While online, your computer's idle capacity performs computational tasks received from our server. It's that simple. As part of the set up process, our software application is loaded on your pc. It runs in the background and does not interrupt or degrade your internet access experience in any way. So, it seems that other ISP's are indeed doing the Juno thing and taking over their subscriber's PCs. It probably only will get worse. It'd be wise for *everyone* to start reading the full license terms of all software, including ISP installation software, from now on. ---- post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://theMezz.com/informant forum: http://theMezz.com/bbs subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] notDigest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________ T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01
