What was that corporation name again. See, I've got this worm I need to
test.......
On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Joel Hammer wrote:
> >
> > Certainly Mattel was doing this. I read a story a few months ago about a guy
> > who noticed that (while on an airplane) his laptop kept trying to get an
> > internet connection. It was a game his kids had loaded, trying to phone
> > home and tell Momma about the local digs. Mattel had "forgot" to tell people
> > about this option in their games.
> >
> You raise a good point. Who is to say that a software manufacturer is not
> under the control of a government security agency? Or the Mafia? Only one or two
> people in the company would need to know what is going on. I have read that
> M$ is very careful to screen its software for such things, even using unix
> or linux software to help, since M$ worms don't bother unix (we hope). It would be
> very doubtful that a game manufacturer would bother looking too hard.
> Is there any watch dog agency which screens games cd's for worms?
> This sort of musing makes the Opensource movement seem quite sensible.
> The degree to which this problem is ignored by my company is astounding.
> Our secretaries routinely install screen savers on their PC's, which are
> quite complicated pieces of software. They get them from friends or the
> internet. I have complained repeatedly to IS
> about this, even writing directly to the head of IS for our corporation and
> writing to the CEO of our hospital. A friend in IS carried the ball on this
> personally. IS has done nothing about it. So, our corporation
> would be easy pickings for anybody who wanted to plant some worms.
> Joel
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