I Spy With My Little Eye

I Spy With My Little Eye
Mark Rasch, 2004-09-13

Forget Congress' myopic efforts to outlaw spyware. What we really need is better enforcement of existing computer crime laws.

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I Spy With My Little Eye 2004-09-14
Anonymous

Spyware is considered to be any software or hardware which collects information from the user without the awarness of the user.

For a software or hardware not to be considered spyware it must make the user aware of any information collection done by it.

Any other way of putting it would make l...

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I Spy With My Little Eye 2004-09-14
Anonymous

"...does not...prohibit a program that steals your personal information without consent. ...be illegal if the distributor wants to defraud or injure you."

Some of would consider simple theft or other gathering of personal information without express, informed consent to be a massive injury. So m...

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I-SPY... 2004-09-16
Dave

I find it interesting that second order affects, such as those caused by Blaster and Sasser have not received more attention. Imagine, a virus or trojan is released in an undirected fashion on the network community. Banks, hospitals, military installations and other services go off-line due to these...

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Please stop the advertising for spyware authors... 2004-09-19
Peter

>Current U.S. federal criminal law, 18 U.S.C. 1030, already makes it a crime to access (read that "use") a protected computer (read that "any computer") without authorization (or in excess of authorization)
Who is allowed to authorize such use of a computer? The person that paid for the computer? ...

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I Spy With My Little Eye 2004-09-23
Mene Tekel

Trying to specify in technical terms what should be classified as spyware is, of course, futile -- if nothing else, because the technical reality of tomorrow won't match the technical reality of today.

What you can and should do is legislate against criminal *intent*. If the software maker *inte...

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