Anti-spyware bill could mean tougher fines

Anti-spyware bill could mean tougher fines
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-03-16

Supporters of the Spy Act hope that the bill's third time is a charm.

Anti-spyware bill could mean tougher fines 2007-03-19
Anonymous (1 replies)

This is a horrible idea. We should not be trying to accomplish with legislation what can be accomplished with technology. The epidemic is not a general problem in computing. It is mainly affecting the experiences of one operating system family's user base. If Mac, Linux, BSD, and UNIX users can ...

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Re: Anti-spyware bill could mean tougher fines 2007-03-19
Anonymous (1 replies)

Why would marketers target a niche audience of *nix users, when the vast majority of workstations on the Internet run Windows? Asserting that it is because Windows is less secure is simply naive. ...

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Re: Re: Anti-spyware bill could mean tougher fines 2007-03-21
Zbig (1 replies)

exactly

X*.. desktop mass-user would install spyware as unconsciously and easily as MS Win's one. E.g. between configuration and hidden files of his/her $HOME.

After all, really sensitive information on desktops resides in user directory and not in the system

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Re: Re: Re: Anti-spyware bill could mean tougher fines 2007-03-23
Anonymous

Legislation is definately required. As soon as it becomes profitable security loop holes can be found on any OS. The only reason MS is usually the one OS affected right now is because it has such a commanding market share, especially in the business sector....

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Unsurprisingly, marketers are leery of the legislation. 2007-03-19
Anonymous (1 replies)

Legitimate marketers deprived of malicious stuff will not be able to compete with russian or asian ones.

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Re: Unsurprisingly, marketers are leery of the legislation. 2007-03-21
Anonymous

The russian or asian ones are not marketers they are called hackers. Dell did not subvert the OS to install spyware last year. There is a difference between exploit code, and spyware. ...

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