Ho-ly!! Thank you very much for sharing that tidbit, Rita. Will pass
it on.
Diane
At 02:59 AM 03/15/2001 -0800, you wrote:
Thought I'd pass this on in case some of you don't get The Langa
List. It's getting scary in cyberspace!
Rita
Warning! More ISPs Follow Juno's Lead!
Remember Juno's plan to consume all the spare CPU cycles in their
subscriber's PCs? (See "Peer-To-Peer's Dark Side" at
http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20010222S0004 )
In that article, I said "I believe that Juno may prove to be only
the first of many such backdoor attempts to cobble together P2P
networks that do little or nothing to benefit the people lassoed --
perhaps unwittingly -- into the network, but that offer enormous
benefit to the companies setting up the stealth P2P networks."
Well, it's already starting. LangaList reader Clarence Lowe found
that out when he paid close attention to his ISP's signup page:
After reading your article on Juno's latest attempt to
invade the privacy of (and not to mention lying to) of their
subscribers, I guess I was on the lookout for similar "terms
of service" in other isp's. Check out this one under "How it
works". http://www.highstream.net/
That section states:
While online, your computer's idle capacity performs
computational tasks received from our server. It's that
simple. As part of the set up process, our software
application is loaded on your pc. It runs in the background
and does not interrupt or degrade your internet access
experience in any way.
So, it seems that other ISP's are indeed doing the Juno thing and
taking over their subscriber's PCs.
It probably only will get worse. It'd be wise for *everyone* to
start reading the full license terms of all software, including
ISP installation software, from now on.
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