On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 11:56:05 -0400 Lanman disseminated the following: > Creating a firewall which blocks or alerts the user to outgoing traffic > would effectively block spyware which Microsoft has obviously placed > inside their operating systems themselves for their own purposes. > > Also, if Microsoft built a firewall that actually did block outgoing > traffic, how would they receive user data? Their own product would be > blocking the data transmissions that they seem to desperately need.
Never thought of that, I think you just hit the nail right on the head! DRM, all that crap, relies on MS software 'phoning home' to verify what they ironically call 'rights' to use or access DRM encoded material, no? -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 14:04:38 up 10 days, 13:47, 9 users, load average: 1.21, 0.66, 0.34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Rule #2 (John Gilmore): "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
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