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Topic: Computer Piracy Works Both Ways |
Les Anderson
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Posted 29 May 2008 9:01 am |
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We have a government proposal in the works in Canada that is creating considerable flap from more than a few government agencies, law enforcement agencies and business corporations. The proposal is focusing on making hacking or intrusion into personal home computers illegal without a legal search warrant.
As we all know, our personal PCs are pretty much open targets for anyone to hack into and upload our private and personal information without our permission or, even knowing that it is being done.
The Canadian government wants to put a stop to it or, control who or what can be taken off our home computers and by whom. The corporate music industry howls to beat the band about people downloading their material and fought and got permission to sue all the little people for this.
Now, at the same time, these same corporations want to be able to hack into our personal files on our home computers and upload anything they feel they can use. (of course they claim they don't use it for third party purposes) These corporations are lining up to block the government from making hacking (pirating) into home computers an offence.
The US government is watching this proposal by the Canadian government very closely and is quite concerned what it could lead to. |
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Earnest Bovine
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Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 29 May 2008 9:51 am
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Les Anderson
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The Great White North
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Posted 29 May 2008 11:00 am
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| Earnest Bovine wrote: |
| But who will bell the cat? |
Good question.
On the other hand and a question that must be asked, how are these companies able to surpass the firewalls that people set up on their computers? I think most people know that Microsoft has that ability programmed into their operating system; however, how are all these other companies getting around the firewalls? |
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Les Anderson
From:
The Great White North
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Posted 29 May 2008 1:14 pm
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Wiz Feinberg
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Mid-Michigan, USA
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Posted 29 May 2008 3:10 pm
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| Les Anderson wrote: |
| Earnest Bovine wrote: |
| But who will bell the cat? |
Good question.
On the other hand and a question that must be asked, how are these companies able to surpass the firewalls that people set up on their computers? I think most people know that Microsoft has that ability programmed into their operating system; however, how are all these other companies getting around the firewalls? |
They bypass your firewalls via backdoors in the software they supplied to you, when you setup your Internet service. That is one reason I never, ever install software from a broadband company. Dial-up users have little choice if they use AOL, or a similar big name as their ISP, but users of generic dial-up service may be able to simply setup a dial-up number and login credentials.
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 30 May 2008 3:21 pm
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| They ask you to "allow cookies" if you even want to use sites like Amazon, read news from the Washington Post, New York Times, etc. - then the cookies sort you out and choose which types of advertisements to send you. MUST ALLOW COOKIES... MUST ALLOW COOKIES... beep beep. |
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