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Software Licensing: The Hidden Threat to Information Security
Richard Forno, 2002-01-23

Software licensing agreements may contain stipulations that could jeopardize your network's security.

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Publishing benchmarks 2002-01-23
Jake Riddoch
Isn't this a perfect application of the CFAA? (re: Mark Rasch's article on your Front Page) 2002-01-23
Anonymous
About license agreements 2002-01-23
TL (1 replies)
About license agreements 2002-01-30
mmckay@iscubed.com
want do see a nice license agreement ... 2002-01-25
merith (1 replies)
want do see a nice license agreement ... 2002-02-02
Rick Forno
re: publishing benchmarks 2002-01-27
trowe
Software Licensing: The Hidden Threat to Information Security 2002-01-30
Anonymous
In your article you commented "Would you knowingly deploy a product that continually ?calls home? to its vendor...?".

Last fall I installed a new hard drive (Western Digital) on my computer. It wasn't until my sons came home at Christmas time that we discovered that it was "calling home" under the ploy of the vendor providing a service of fixing problems. There was a note with the information that came with the hard drive - I interpreted it to mean they would email me information. Not true. The drive was actually communicating to the vendor. The information assured that it did not access any of my data. But how do I know that? It did give instructions on how to disable the feature which we immediately did.

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