A Chara Leif,
Wednesday, March 01, 2000, 9:57:11 PM, you wrote:
LG> I'll side with Steve on this issue.
Just so that everyone understands:
I wasn't in fact originally fully disagreeing with the statement that
Steve made, or attempting to take sides. I butted in simply because
Steve was seeming to be so categorically rigid and intolerant about
the subject...which gets on my pip.
First, reputable companies are not immune and DO get it wrong,
sometimes; they are not infallible. And, not everyone is as open about
what they are doing as we would wish them to be, and to think the
opposite is just naivete - in my opinion.
Second, when Mr Joe Un-reputable scum bag from AngelFire (not what I
think btw) posts a notice in a newsgroup stating that he has found a
privacy violation in say a program called 'Nobble It Net Manager', and
no-one knows about this possible violation until that first posting,
what happens next? Does it get ignored? Does everyone shout "ahh, its
a stupid lamer creating more bogus alerts"? Some will, but eventually
that alert gets spread about the place and a reputable company, or
individual, might get hold of it and investigate it further to try and
confirm whether it is a false claim or whether there is in fact really
some validity to it. If that claim is found to be bogus, then it has
unfortunately been a waste of everyone's resources but puts to bed the
nonsense for good, hopefully. However, if that claim proves valid,
then this original supposedly bogus posting has surely served a
necessary purpose in uncovering the violation and bringing it to
everyone's attention. It has graduated from the domain of the
'paranoid posting' to an 'alert from a reputable company'. To be so
rigid and intolerant of this process is to miss 'the point'.
Yes, of course there are a lot of bogus reports about, and yes, I'm
sure that everyone (including me) gets totally fed up to the back
teeth with hearing about them. However, it is the nature of the Net
and you take the good with the bad and sometimes the bad can in fact
act in tandem with the good.
Reputable sources are obviously the best sources; only a fool would
argue that point. But doesn't reading a posting from Mr Paranoid
inevitably prompt you to seek verification from a reputable source as
to its validity?. To me, that original alert, whether bogus or not,
has allowed me to take action prior to confirmation. It has then
served a purpose. I am not talking about every case here.
No disrespect. Just another angle on the subject.
Slan,
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