Mark Rasch, 2005-05-24
The murky waters that sustain the spyware companies may have a few unpleasant surprises just beneath the surface.
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Is Deleting Spyware A Crime?
2005-06-02
Anonymous
Anonymous
I see no one else has yet fallen victim to your troll of a headline. So I will...
Go (or go back) to law school. It is not a crime to delete spyware. At worst for the consumer, it may be a breach of contract (license agreement), but that as you say is a tort not a violation of criminal law.
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Go (or go back) to law school. It is not a crime to delete spyware. At worst for the consumer, it may be a breach of contract (license agreement), but that as you say is a tort not a violation of criminal law.
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Is Deleting Spyware A Crime?
2005-06-02
Anonymous
Anonymous
Advice to spyware authors: Write your code so that if the user uninstalls your information gathering/disseminating garbage it also removes whatever goodies you lured them in with in the first place.
Advice to anti-spyware authors: Write your code to be a software uninstaller and market it as such...
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Advice to anti-spyware authors: Write your code to be a software uninstaller and market it as such...
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