> ... Does Intuit run spyware?
I did find a web bug (a one-pixel image in HTML code which fed a unique number to a web server when the email is read) in an Intuit email quite a while ago. It was sent by Intuit, with the report aimed at an Intuit server which seemed to be configured specifically to gather such data. I consider that to be an indicator that there was a corporate policy which allowed secretly gathering information about customers. I don't know how much info that policy allows or allowed to be collected secretly. > Now that M$ has bought Great Plains and Navision, two mid-sized > accounting platforms, can their customers expect security to > improve? Even if secret source code can't be read (well, the comments can't be read but the logic can be read in the resulting binary), at least licenses can be read. Two recent MS licenses allow MS to access and alter your computer, and a recent MS .NET license gave MS all rights to material placed on the server. (This latter comment is based on a report about GotDotNet.Com -- I can't read the actual license announcement due to a server error in that server..) There seem to be many people who trust MS on their accounting and spreadsheet computers, so perhaps those people would also trust MS to manage and own their companies' accounting data. I'm sure MS can think of many ways to sell accounting info, "industry comparative data" being the most obvious. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------- (un)subscribe: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sql-ledger-users Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
