Re: New Spyware
From: sponge (mtubi@python.net)Date: 02/11/02
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From: mtubi@python.net (sponge) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 01:57:58 GMT
That was about as succinct and as eloquent as one could put it. Thank
you.
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 05:39:17 GMT, CatThief <nospam@no.way> wrote:
>OneLouder wrote...
>
><snip>
>> Believe me, I'm well aware I'm wasting my time on zealots.
>>
>> -- Duane
>
>Duane,
>
>At the risk of feeding a suspected troll... enough already!!! Name
>calling does not become anyone and accomplishes nothing but
>hostility.
>
>You must at least be knowledgeable enough on this issue to realize
>that some folks have a liking for completely unobtrusive Internet use
>and want to retain their rightful option to exercise *choice*.
>Regardless of however benignly you present your company's services
>or wares, and however truly benign they may be, you must know how
>there is enough real crap out there already being spread as wide as
>the sky and most of us here and elsewhere are just plain fed up with
>being exposed to it, having it shoved in our faces, choked down our
>throats, and installed with neither warning nor our consent. You are
>hearing from the voices of experience. Our cumulative negative
>experiences involving the loss of privacy and security are enough to
>make our skin crawl at the smell of anything that even hints at
>resembling the behavior of spyware.
>
>You are sitting on one side of the fence. Most of us here sit on the
>other. Those of indifference sit in the middle. Perhaps the middle
>folks should be your targets as those who sit on the opposite side
>from where you sit just want to be left alone. We'll pay the monetary
>price for decent software. We'll even accept the advertising in
>exchange for a free product. But don't expect us to accept
>compromised privacy and security, system instability, or anything else
>that has been discovered in association with spyware and spyware
>activity in exchange for someone's 'good word' on how the collection of
>our personal information will benefit us. All it does is help vendors
>support their products - something, by the way, to which we are not
>opposed. There are just better ways to accomplish that goal is all.
>
>As long as advertising and/or the gathering of personal identifying
>information for marketing purposes and profit is a reality in today's
>Internet and software world, we need the cooperation of all companies
>in protecting the privacy of all consumers. We just want to be
>*honestly* informed and given an *honest* choice. But realize along
>the way that thousands of software and service titles have already
>carved a path of mistrust. Among us here and elsewhere you will find
>wide ranges of resentment, paranoia, distrust, and anger that are as
>varied as our individuality as people. The bottom line, though, is the
>same - we're damned cautious... and justifiably so.
>
>Many Regards,
>CatThief
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