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Re: The AOL Spyware
From: mikael.olsson () ENTERNET SE (Mikael Olsson)
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 20:53:09 +0200
Masial wrote:
SmartDownload would be a software that helps you manage your internet downloads (all of them),
Ahhh I was confusing it with smartupgrade... Sorry 'bout that, everyone, my bad.
so it would know EVERY file you download from the net. If you are to download pam03.mpg or prostate.pdf, AOL would know. Or so does the article seem to claim. I find this somewhat disturbing. Question is, whats its exact behaviour?
Yes. I think someone should sniff some traffic and try to parse it (or post it) so that we can see what happens. Who knows, it could concevably be something as innocent as "check for new versions of smart download", but then again, it may not :-P (So let's not cry foul until we see what it's doing. It hurts the security community if we do) -- Mikael Olsson, EnterNet Sweden AB, Box 393, S-891 28 ÖRNSKÖLDSVIK Phone: +46 (0)660 29 92 00 Direct: +46 (0)660 29 92 05 Mobile: +46 (0)70 66 77 636 Fax: +46 (0)660 122 50 WWW: http://www.enternet.se/ E-mail: mikael.olsson () enternet se
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- Re: About all the default password databases... Jonathan Leto (Jul 07)
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- Re: BitchX /ignore bug Steve Mosher (Jul 07)
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