I just love 'I told ya so's..lol..

[Ðiego]

For any who have not seen this:

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-873416.html

See what happens when you take the quick road? You rent a client rather than program your own and you get anything coming to you. The least they could have done was get a programmer of their own to check the code for holes before they fostered it off on their users.

Any of you who have been around long enough will remember (if you ever knew) that we could have done the same with Napster on any of the OpenNap servers. The backdoor they programmed into the client from version 4 onwards made it possible for them to auto-upgrade the users. Anyone with enough programming savy (and no morals) could have used that backdoor to have the client download and run anything they liked. And still can to any of you still using the Napster client.

Isn't time such an excellent teacher..


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[fblaguy]

Yet another reason why I don't use morpheous and kazaa.

Of course, crap like this could explain how 3 spyware registry keys were found by my ad aware today......even though it had been 2 weeks since my last scan....even though I kept my reference file updated.

[Smoketoomuch]

quote from the article:

People who allow their computers to be used will be compensated somehow, possibly with gift certificates or free videos, the company's filing said.

Now thats funny on a peer to peer network - a a gift of free video.

I can't believe they are that stupid to write down this...

[goldie]

Originally posted by Smoketoomuch
quote from the article:


Now thats funny on a peer to peer network - a a gift of free video.

I can't believe they are that stupid to write down this...

Sounds like they're playing the "Cover Your Asses" Game!

Too late!!! It's all hangin' out now!

[zombywoof]

Originally posted by Ðiego
For any who have not seen this:

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-873416.html

See what happens when you take the quick road? You rent a client rather than program your own and you get anything coming to you. The least they could have done was get a programmer of their own to check the code for holes before they fostered it off on their users.

Any of you who have been around long enough will remember (if you ever knew) that we could have done the same with Napster on any of the OpenNap servers. The backdoor they programmed into the client from version 4 onwards made it possible for them to auto-upgrade the users. Anyone with enough programming savy (and no morals) could have used that backdoor to have the client download and run anything they liked. And still can to any of you still using the Napster client.

Isn't time such an excellent teacher..


Ð

How true.

[HOSTYLE]

gotta love that webpage address... pretty smart

[zombywoof]

Quote from article:

The Brilliant Digital plan is the most ambitious yet from a string of companies that have tried to make money off the millions of people who are downloading and using free file-swapping programs such as Kazaa, MusicCity's Morpheus or LimeWire.


As long as this is the motive for putting out p2p apps, then we can come to expect rogue spyware from use of this software.

P2P spells trouble when they go corporate.

[Lowdown!]

Well if you let them they will do it, get protected or stay offline!...I'm sure if someone came up too you on the street these days and said."I know everything about you"...would you beleive them..hehehe, well I check my accounts daily online to see if there was any unauthorized transfers or attempts, that my main concern!, I think Microsoft is the first and biggest company too start looking into you pc to see what you need!..and it goes on and on.....