Re: ALLADVANTAGE Privacy Concern

[hacker () VUDU NET (Eric Hacker, Cybershaman)]

Um, I thought the point of AllAdvantage was to records your
browsing habits and send it off to their people to analyze. This
is from their web page:
"As you surf, it creates a member profile that describes your
unique interests and preferences."

What did you think they were doing?

Nobody gives away _free_ money. If someone is trying to give you
_free_ money, it is best not to trust them.

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Eric Hacker, MCSE, CCSE                      hacker () vudu net

Hacker is my real name. Please, no flames, no props...
Just deal with it.

-----Original Message-----
From: VULN-DEV List [mailto:VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM]On Behalf
Of
Derek Reynolds
Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 10:12 PM
To: VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM
Subject: ALLADVANTAGE Privacy Concern

If they can monitor web access, what else are they monitoring?
Are
they gathering valuable marketing information from each and every
All
Advantage user?  It wasn't until my Peer installed the new
AllAdvantage
Bar that they caught him.

Of course cheating is wrong but so is recording web browsing
habits
among other things, sending the details to their people to
analyze.

I am sure that AllAdvantage wants to leverage direct marketing by
detecting what sites people goto and rightfully showing them an
appropriate ad.

Anyone got a good network analyzer who wants to extract what data
is
sent to/from the AllAdvantage client?

-Derek