more on MN GOP CD phones home

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [IP] MN GOP CD phones home]
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:52:38 -0600
From: Robert Alberti <alberti () sanction net>
Reply-To: alberti () sanction net
Organization: Sanction, Inc.
To: dave () farber net
References: <4404A1BE.4070701 () farber net>

This just gets worse and worse.

http://www.publicradio.org/columns/minnesota/polinaut/

Sorry to follow-up on my own post, but the story of the MN GOP CD that
phones home just gets worse.

You see, this CD apparently pipes your personal information over the
Internet into a database.  Bad enough, right?  Well apparently the place
where the data is sent is not secured... so by decompiling the Flash
program on the CD, you can trace down and access all the personal
information stored in the database.

This isn't merely criminal, it isn't merely negligence, it's
tar-and-feathers quality criminal negligence...  the mind reels.

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 14:17 -0500, Dave Farber wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: MN GOP CD phones home
> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:40:20 -0600
> From: Robert Alberti <alberti () sanction net>
> Reply-To: alberti () sanction net
> Organization: Sanction, Inc.
> To: dave () farber net
> References: <44049470.4000606 () farber net>
>
> "If you run the CD in your personal computer, by the end of it, the
> Minnesota GOP will not only know what you think on particular issues,
> but also who you are."
>
> http://www.publicradio.org/columns/minnesota/polinaut/
>
> Posted by Bob Collins, senior editor at Minnesota Public Radio.


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