Locking Down the Pop-up Perps

Locking Down the Pop-up Perps
Mark Rasch, 2002-11-18

Pop-up ads have already inspired civil lawsuits. Here's how federal computer crime law and the USA-PATRIOT Act could put obnoxious advertisers in the pokey.

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Locking Down the Pop-up Perps 2002-11-18
lipa (1 replies)

> But does the fact that I allow certain things to be done to my
> computer imply that a Web server is authorized to do anything it wants
> to my machine?
no, it's authorized to do only the things that you allowed.
actually it will only do the things that you allowed, otherwise it would be a pro...

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Locking Down the Pop-up Perps 2002-11-19
Didier (1 replies)

Jacek, I must desagree,your example is fallacious.
It's not the content of your message that cause the problem, but e.a, that because I agree to read your message I will not agree that reading it open a ads to another web site.

On the Internet, more and more actions are done in our back, eating ...

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Locking Down the Pop-up Perps 2002-11-20
lipa

> It's not the content of your message that cause the problem, but e.a,
> that because I agree to read your message I will not agree that
> reading it open a ads to another web site.
did you agree to have a javascript interpreter turned on? yes? well then you did agree to see any popup win...

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Locking Down the Pop-up Perps 2002-11-22
Anonymous (1 replies)

A lot of your wording and computer terminology is very hazy - so I will assume you are a lawyer or someone who wants to be with little computer knowledge - just that of the "working Joe Schmoe" home computer user.

When you go to a webpage, you ARE allowing certain things to happen. What you may w...

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Locking Down the Pop-up Perps 2002-11-27
lipa

> I will assume you are a lawyer
thanks - someone finally said something i didn't want to
say out loud. lawyers have a tendency to legislate themselves out of
everything that they don't understand.
if we would be talking about anything else, like tax law for example
legal people would laugh and...

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One way of prosecuting may be... 2002-11-25
Anonymous

stating that popups are theft of service; they are unwanted pieces of code/data that run or force the computer to perform an action that you do not want.
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