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Is Flash Player tracking?
I always wondered about the settings in Flash Player.So read this
article and check out your settings,especially if you have a microphone or camera installed.Some one may be spying on you. http://www.techweb.com/wire/ebiz/160400719 |
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Note that this article is not referring to any process that enables anyone
else to observe what is being recorded, so whether or not you have a microphone or camera installed isn't relevant. "Joe K" wrote in message ... I always wondered about the settings in Flash Player.So read this article and check out your settings,especially if you have a microphone or camera installed.Some one may be spying on you. http://www.techweb.com/wire/ebiz/160400719 |
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Joe in some cases according to the Wall Street Journal indeed a web camera
can be taken over by hackers who can use it to spy on you. That is actually why I do not use a web camera. Anyway, I read the article you posted and here is a piece below: (From the website "United Virtualities is offering online marketers and publishers technology that attempts to undermine the growing trend among consumers to delete cookies planted in their computers. The New York . . (for shame the state I grew up in) . . company on Thursday unveiled what it calls PIE, or persistent identification element, . . (sounds like let us steal your identitiy to me) . . a technology that's uploaded to a browser and restores deleted cookies. In addition, PIE, which can't be easily removed . . (it will probably take editing the registry to fully remove this) .. . , can also act as a cookie backup, since it contains the same information. " United Virtualities is just asking for its company to be hacked by hackers because it is undermining the very security that consumers demand. Like the Mini 2.5 Keylogger that I got on my system which is actually a $50 program that some evil person must have bought and planted somehow on my computer. http://www.invisiblekeylogger.com/64...keylogger.html The only reason for a company to do something like this is because United Virtualities is acting like Big Brother in the book 1984 by George Orwell. I hope Tim is reading this post so that he can have the government file suit against this company for infringing upon people right to privacy. Perhaps even Microsoft Corporation would be willing to file suit against them. If neither are government or Microsoft acts against them then I Dan will consider suing the company for the safety of all individuals right to privacy against evil individuals and evil in my opinion companies who try to meet the needs of evil individuals by making life miserable for all of us by trying to take away all privacy rights. Heck, I am so fired up now that I think I may leave my computer off the net and just use the library computer and my housemate's David's machine so that the evil people are less likely to get my identity. This also is slowly starting to remind me of the movie "Enemy of the State" with Gene Hackman. Have a nice night. "Joe K" wrote: I always wondered about the settings in Flash Player.So read this article and check out your settings,especially if you have a microphone or camera installed.Some one may be spying on you. http://www.techweb.com/wire/ebiz/160400719 |
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The only reason for a company to do something like this is because United Virtualities is acting like Big Brother in the book 1984 by George Orwell. And isn't this quote Orwellian from the website [Mookie Tanembaum, founder and chief executive of United Virtualities, says the company is trying to help consumers by preventing them from deleting cookies that help website operators deliver better services. "The user is not proficient enough in technology to know if the cookie is good or bad, or how it works," Tanembaum said.] end quote So Tannembaum is telling people you don't know what you are doing so we will tell you. This kind of reasoning also got all this spyware and malware and cookies on our computers. What gets me is my computer is in my home,so they are saying they can invade my home electronicly and do what they want. NO WAY IT'S MY COMPUTER |
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Exactly. The only way around this might be to use the kill bit and disable
the flash player entirely. I am starting to like the flash player less and less and this may be the final straw. I know my dad has flash technology disabled because of privacy issues. I hope consumers boycott this company. It is getting to be really annoying to have to go to such lengths to have a somewhat okay Internet experience. I am talking about reading emails in plain text, having to always use secure log-ins, not being able to trust hardly any attachments, having to scan all files for viruses, realizing that your computer is not really that safe, realizing Bluetooth can be hacked, realizing ActiveX is not that safe, etc. Anyway, I can go on all day but I will spare you Joe. Take care, smile Dan "Joe K" wrote: The only reason for a company to do something like this is because United Virtualities is acting like Big Brother in the book 1984 by George Orwell. And isn't this quote Orwellian from the website [Mookie Tanembaum, founder and chief executive of United Virtualities, says the company is trying to help consumers by preventing them from deleting cookies that help website operators deliver better services. "The user is not proficient enough in technology to know if the cookie is good or bad, or how it works," Tanembaum said.] end quote So Tannembaum is telling people you don't know what you are doing so we will tell you. This kind of reasoning also got all this spyware and malware and cookies on our computers. What gets me is my computer is in my home,so they are saying they can invade my home electronicly and do what they want. NO WAY IT'S MY COMPUTER |
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