Microsoft Changes WGA Following Spyware Allegations

[Ghostrider]

Paranoid people should not use computers, credit cards, telephones, or store
discount cards to name a few.

What world you are living in? Business today and mercantilism
are demanding more on-line activity using computers, credit card
transactions, fax transmissions, and so forth. They should not
become the instruments that induce paranoia or even irrational
fears. But all it takes are devious minds to generate some real
concerns of privacy.

 

[kurttrail]

Maybe they didn't want to give the pirates too much warning.

Maybe MS is just sh*tting on its paying customers.

Naw I'm wrong, as there is no maybe about it. MS really is sh*tting on
its paying customers with its copy-protection malware.

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[kurttrail]

Maybe they didn't want to give the pirates too much warning.

Maybe MS is just sh*tting on its paying customers.

Naw I'm wrong, as there is no maybe about it. MS really is sh*tting on
its paying customers with its copy-protection malware.

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[kurttrail]

Paranoid people should not use computers, credit cards, telephones,
or store discount cards to name a few.

LOL! It's not paranioa when your concerns are justified.

WGA is of absolutely no use to me. Computers, credit cards, telephones,
and store discount cards are of varying use to me.

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[Gary]

If credit card companys monitor everything you purchase, Banks every
transaction you make, Telephone companys every call you make, Stores every
purchase you make, etc, etc. Then what is it about WGA that is makeing you
so paranoid?

Or is just something you can stand on your soap box and rant about?

 

[Nevermind]

That's what I thought - he cant want them then?
Antioch

One can always get the patches manually.

 

[Ghostrider]

If credit card companys monitor everything you purchase, Banks every
transaction you make, Telephone companys every call you make, Stores every
purchase you make, etc, etc. Then what is it about WGA that is makeing you
so paranoid?

Or is just something you can stand on your soap box and rant about?

The concern is that the "spying" proclivities of WGA was
foisted upon all unsuspecting and unexpecting most private
users of Windows XP. Users working in businesses that had
VLK versions of Windows XP were exempt from WGA but these
users can expect their activities to be monitored. There
is no reason for WGA to be reporting back to Microsoft on
a daily basis (or even a 14-day basis). There is already
an established database of all activations; re-activation
taps back into it in any event and validates the PK if it
is genuine. So, just what is the purpose of WGA? Why now
and not 3 months ago or next September? Microsoft admits
that WGA is a "pilot" program but does not offer an opt
out for those who had "automatically" updated. These are
some very serious concerns for the wary, not the paranoid.
Those of us who live in the US enjoy great personal privacy
and security. Many of us probably think that they should also
continue unfettered.

 

[Ghostrider]

If credit card companys monitor everything you purchase, Banks every
transaction you make, Telephone companys every call you make, Stores every
purchase you make, etc, etc. Then what is it about WGA that is makeing you
so paranoid?

Or is just something you can stand on your soap box and rant about?

And yes, almost forgot to add, that credit card companies,
banks, telephone companies, etc., are regulated in what they
can do with the information that has been collected. WGA and
Microsoft are not, other than a single statement of privacy.
And, also, just who are the "client" computers and what type
of security exists within the "data farm" that holds all of
the activation, validation and WGA data? Whom do you trust?
Want to trust a company that surreptitiously innoculates an
unremovable trojan into your computer?

 

[antioch]

Hi Rhoda
Got my firewall blocking it as well for the moment - getting same message
etc.
I have not crashed yet
Rgds
Antioch

 

[kurttrail]

If credit card companys monitor everything you purchase,

They don't. They only monitor the purchases I used my credit card I
have with them.

I still use cash alot.

Banks every
transaction you make,

No they don't.

Telephone companys every call you make,

I've used anonymous phone cards.

Stores
every purchase you make,

Again, I still use cash.

etc, etc. Then what is it about WGA that is
makeing you so paranoid?

I'm not paranoid about it. I don't NEED it for ANYTHING! It doesn't
make my computer run faster, better, or more efficiently. In fact, it
wastes my bandwith, adds more things that can go wrong with my OS, and
is still beta code on top of all that!

Or is just something you can stand on your soap box and rant about?

Copy-protection is anti-consumer technology. No consumer NEEDS it.
Period!

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[antioch]

If credit card companys monitor everything you purchase, Banks every
transaction you make, Telephone companys every call you make, Stores every
purchase you make, etc, etc. Then what is it about WGA that is makeing you
so paranoid?

Or is just something you can stand on your soap box and rant about?

I would have thought the answer to that was obvious -
FREEDOM OF CHOICE - perhaps you don't use it, want it or need it. I do.
Antioch

 

[Jon]

LOL! Instead of phoning home every day, MS is changing it to every 14
days!

Whoopy-do!

With a summary of the past 2 weeks perhaps

Jon

 

[Rick]

Gary wrote:




Maybe MS is just sh*tting on its paying customers.

Naw I'm wrong, as there is no maybe about it. MS really is sh*tting on
its paying customers with its copy-protection malware.

get a life

 

[Gaoler]

Who needs the media, when it is quite clear that MS is the largest
distributor of spy/malware on the planet Earth?

Beta software that is absolutely no use to the security of the End User,
disguised as a security high priority update, that phones home to MS.

So when is the MSkeystroke Logger coming to Microsoft Update?

Imagine how much spyware MS has distributed with the huge download
demand of Vista!

 

[Gaoler]

Maybe MS is just sh*tting on its paying customers.

Naw I'm wrong, as there is no maybe about it. MS really is sh*tting on
its paying customers with its copy-protection malware.

Yup - MS just makes it's paying customers _bend over and take it!_

 

[Gaoler]

If credit card companys monitor everything you purchase, Banks every
transaction you make, Telephone companys every call you make, Stores every
purchase you make, etc, etc. Then what is it about WGA that is makeing you
so paranoid?

Or is just something you can stand on your soap box and rant about?

LOL! Apparently Gary bends over to take it from MS because he likes it!

 

[kurttrail]

get a life

Thanks, but I got one already, and one is all I can handle.

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[kurttrail]

LOL! Apparently Gary bends over to take it from MS because he likes
it!

It's the only way he can feel anything at all.

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[Mike Fields]

"Reach out and grep someone."

Awk sed the yacc ...

 

[Jon]

nice info man