On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:06:35 -0500, Gus wrote:

> Unruh wrote:
>> ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin) writes:
>>
>>> On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.computer.security, in article
>>> <45f479cf$0$8927$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>, Steve H. wrote:
>>
>>>> Someone on another BBS I'm on declared that Microsoft might secretly
>>>> whitelist certain spyware companies. This is total BS, right ? I cannot
>>>> imagine Microsoft doing this and the resulting scandal.
>>
>>> This is a troll, right? You've had your head up-and-locked and haven't
>>> bothered to read the End User License Agreement that _you_ agreed to when
>>> you got windoze, and haven't bothered to know what the words "Digital
>>> Rights Management" mean. That's funny.
>>
>>> In case you're not trolling, point your news reader to the news groups
>>> "alt.privacy" and "alt.spyware". Or just hit google and find a copy of
>>> the microsoft EULA - or pick up any computer magazine and find the
>>> discussion about the spyware - it's not called that, because you agreed
>>> that microsoft has the right to install it and can do anything they want
>>> with the information they get from your computer.
>>
>> Ie, it is not a secret, it is something you agree to (well, that is
>> actually doubtful that you agree to it, since it is part of contract of
>> adhesion, and you have no opportunity to actually negotiate it, or even
>> know what its terms are before purchase.)
>> Ie, what it rather is that Microsoft Claims the right to disable any part
>> of the operating system at its whim. Whether this would stand up in court
>> is dubious, but would you want to be the one to take on Gate's billions in
>> a legal fight. Might makes right in this case, especially when the
>> govenment is totally unwilling to take on blatant and declared illegal
>> actions by that company.
>>
>> Ie, by using and installing Vista, you have given away the keys to your
>> computer to MS, or to whatever other agents can determine how MS can
>> disable your system.
>>
>>> Old guy
> Since we bought Microsoft os there is no law that says we must give
> control to it. Therefore there would be nothing certainly immoral ,or
> unlawful to controlling our own computers and whatever we choose to run
> on them. Surely there are computer geniuses out there who want to make
> few bucks by giving back control of our os and computers.

Good point.