[Lula] Microsoft writes Oklahoma anti-spyware bill... that lets them use spyware!

[Matthew Easton]

I absolutely don't care if cracked software could get deleted from my  
computer (assuming perfect knowledge on the manufacturer's part --  
heh.).   Why should I hold the software manufacturer to a higher  
standard than I hold myself...

It's the other stuff I worry about.  If someone's looking at my  
software, might they also be looking at my documents?  After 9/11 we  
saw stories of airline passengers being pulled off of planes for  
reading novels with terrorist themes.  And 'child suspended for  
taking aspirin at school/hugging classmate/writing murder fantasy'  
stories are fairly common.   Would Nabokov be in danger of being  
arrested while he wrote "Lolita"?  Or William S. Burroughs writing  
"Naked Lunch"?  Or some poor sap venting in a private journal?

Thought crimes...

On Apr 13, 2006, at 1:54 PM, Brent Tubbs wrote:

> On the other hand, what are the odds that Microsoft, or any other  
> software vendor, is going to produce a special "Oklahoma-only"  
> edition of their software that does all this snooping and deleting,  
> and sell everyone else the non-snooping version?  Pretty slim, I'd  
> say.
>
> Standing alone, I don't think this law is much of a threat.  But if  
> it persuades other states to follow suit, and convinces people that  
> it's generally okay for software companies to build in backdoors,  
> then there will really be a problem.
>
> Charles Wyble wrote:
>> Oh for sure.
>>
>> Dan Kegel wrote:
>>> Right, it has nothing to do with vista.  However, it does let  
>>> software
>>> vendors wipe things from your computer remotely, which is pretty  
>>> scary.
>>>
>>> On 4/12/06, Charles Wyble <charles at thewybles.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't think it has anything to do with vista. The Register is  
>>>> known
>>>> for sensationalist journalism.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dan Kegel wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Check this out:
>>>>> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30877
>>>>> "The problem is that if you agree, you give the company you bought
>>>>> upgradable software the freedom to come onto your computer for
>>>>> "detection or prevention of the unauthorized use of or  
>>>>> fraudulent or
>>>>> other illegal activities in connection with a network, service, or
>>>>> computer software, including scanning for and removing computer
>>>>> software prescribed under this act."
>>>>>
>>>>> In other words if you install Vista, Microsoft can come in, snoop
>>>>> around your computer see if you are doing anything illegal and  
>>>>> delete
>>>>> it."
>>>>>
>>>>> See also
>>>>> http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/04/11/1630211.shtml
>>>>> - Dan
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
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