, 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 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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> 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 programming bug.
if the mechanisms to 'allow certain things', or their default settings are not what you would like - complain to the browser vendor, or get another browser.
if you had your way you could also sue me for posting this message,
because it was not what you expected to see and it 'ate your bandwidth' because you looked at it :)
jacek
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