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Re: Windows 95 Espionage ( ?? )
From: chris () isis isisph com (Christopher D. Heer)
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 07:51:22 -0700
On Tue, 6 Jun 1995, George Mullins wrote:
Bernd Lehle writes: > Can anybody confirm this ? A little late for April Fool's Day... :-) A number of folks have confirmed this by "snooping" the modem connection while running the "registration wizard". It does NOT seem to interrogate every system on your network, but it does send a complete directory listing of the system it is run on. Prodigy was sued for this and lost!
It's this sort of misinformation that makes me wonder if lists like this are really worth it. In the first place, Prodigy did not lose a suit over this. The Prodigy thing was, in fact, completely different. They were allocating temp file space on PCs without wiping the space first, so whatever deleted junk was hanging about ended up in the file. Someone went poking through their file, found old Quicken data, etc., and panicked. In the second place, where is your source for the directory listing? With the exception of hysterical posts here, I've seen *no* confirmation that it sends *anything* other than what it says it sends. Sigh. -- Christopher D. Heer|He's back and it's about time! Dr. Who, coming to FOX! cheer () isisph com |GCS d++ H- s:+ g? p1 au++ a- w+ v++ C+++ S++++ P+ L 3 Not just cheer. . .| E--- N++ K+++ W+ M+ V-- -po+ Y+ t+ 5 jx R G'''' all tempa-cheer! | tv+ b+++ D+ B e+ u--- h---- f+ r+++ n---- y++++
Current thread:
- Re: login can be used to hide from finger under SunOS 4.13u1 Michael J. Covington (Jun 02)
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- Re: login can be used to hide from finger under SunOS 4.13u1 Paul (Jun 03)
- Windows 95 Espionage ( ?? ) Bernd Lehle (Jun 06)
- Re: Windows 95 Espionage ( ?? ) Tatu Ylonen (Jun 06)
- Windows 95 Espionage ( ?? ) George Mullins (Jun 06)
- Re: Windows 95 Espionage ( ?? ) Christopher D. Heer (Jun 07)
- Bugtraq stalled Scott Chasin (Jun 28)
- ANNOUNCE: Freely available TTY monitoring/control program Mike Neuman (Jun 28)
- Windows 95 Espionage ( ?? ) Bernd Lehle (Jun 06)
- Re: login can be used to hide from finger under SunOS 4.13u1 Colin Jenkins (Jun 06)