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IP: RealNetworks Listening In
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 06:12:14 -0500
CD Software Is Said to Monitor Users' Listening Habits By SARA ROBINSON RealNetworks' popular RealJukebox software for playing CD's on computers surreptitiously monitors the listening habits and certain other activities of people who use it and continually reports this information, along with the user's identity, to RealNetworks, said a security expert who intercepted and examined data generated by the program. Full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/11/biztech/articles/01real.html
**************************************************************************** Professor David Farber The Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems Department of Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania 200 S. 33 rd Street Philadelphia PA 19104-6389 Off Use 1 215 327 8756 if no answer or no voicemail use 1 215 898 9508 Fax: 1 408 490 2720 ( touch 2 for fax or hit send) Home: POB 424 250 Good Hope Road (for Fedex) Home:+ 1 610 274 8292 voice; Fax +1 408 490 2720 ( touch 2 for fax or hit send) Landenberg PA 19350-0424 Primary occupation -- Tele-techno-yenta Home Page: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~farber My PGP Key fingerprint: B4F6 0DA4 D8C9 8C70 2012 1C6B C378 6836 F7FB 5EC9 Member of the USA President's Information Technology Advisory Committee -- PITAC Publisher and Editor of the IP List Member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Governor of the ICCC Visiting Professor of the Glocom Institute of Japan Fellow of the Cyberspace Law Institute Member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Democracy and Technology Senior Advisor of the ASIA NETWORK RESEARCH (ANR) - Malaysia Member of the International visiting Committee of KRDL Singapore "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin, ~1784 "Photons have neither morals nor visas" -- Dave Farber 1994 "A revolution is not a dinner party." -- Mao Tse Tung "Farber is the Paul Revere of Cyberspace" -- Wired Magazine Sept 1996 "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." --- John Gilmore
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