Limewire is now spyware.

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Post #19,401

by inthane-chan

11/26/01 10:55:54 AM

Limewire is now spyware.

Subject came up recently on Steve Gibson's site a little bit back - apparently, in order to make a little $$$, the makers of Limewire threw in a tracebot that tracks what you do/where you go...

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Bearshare - (orion) - (5) - Nov. 20, 2001, 10:19:00 PM EST

Bearshit - (Norjak) - (3) - Nov. 24, 2001, 12:16:06 AM EST

Nah... - (bepatient) - (2) - Nov. 24, 2001, 03:59:12 AM EST

Limewire, I'll get it. - (orion) - (1) - Nov. 24, 2001, 09:34:34 PM EST

Limewire is now spyware. - (inthane-chan) - Nov. 26, 2001, 10:55:54 AM EST

Re: Bearshare - (JCB) - Nov. 28, 2001, 05:40:52 PM EST

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I'll even go so far as to concede that today's postliterate teenagers are already sufficiently impaired by pop culture that anything that serves to make them even more scatterbrained is rather in the way of gilding the lily, and should not be encouraged.
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