Posted on 04/12/2006 6:59:01 PM PDT by thebaron512
Microsoft writes a law for Oklahoma giving it the right to inspect your hard drive, delete your files and applications, and call the police if it finds anything “illegal”… is your state next?
Oklahoma Gazette - 4-5-2006:
It’s supposed to protect you from predators spying on your computer habits, but a bill Microsoft Corp. helped write for Oklahoma will open your personal information to warrantless searches, according to a computer privacy expert and a state representative.
Called the “Computer Spyware Protection Act,” House Bill 2083 would create fines of up to a million dollars for anyone using viruses or surreptitious computer techniques to break on to someone’s computer without that person’s knowledge and acceptance, according to the bill’s state Senate author, Clark Jolley.
However…
If you click that “accept” button on the routine user’s agreement, the proposed law would allow any company from whom you bought upgradable software the freedom to come onto your computer for “detection or prevention of the unauthorized use of or fraudulent or other illegal activities in connection with a network, service, or computer software, including scanning for and removing computer software prescribed under this act.”
That means that Microsoft (or another company with such software) can erase spyware or viruses. But if you have, say, a pirated copy of Excel — Microsoft (or companies with similar software) can erase it, or anything else they want to erase, and not be held liable for it. Additionally, that phrase “fraudulent or other illegal activities” means they can:
—Let the local district attorney know that you wrote a hot check last month.
—Let the attorney general know that you play online poker.
—Let the tax commission know you bought cartons of cigarettes and didn’t pay the state tax on them.
—Read anything on your hard drive, such as your name, home address, personal identification code, passwords, Social Security number … etc., etc., etc.
Full article:
http://www.okgazette.com/news/templates/cover.asp?articleid=423&zoneid=7
This is way beyond an issue of privacy. This seems to me to involve a form of unlawful breaking and entering.
This is ridiculous. It actually sounds like the movie "The Net" in which the villain does something similar on a nationwide scale.
Is Bill Gates trying to take over the world?
Not contributing to the reelection campaign of Senator Microsoft is yet another reason to use Linux.
MS inspecting computers without oversight? Think of all the stuff they can steal. Inventions people are working on and such...
Is it really that bad or have we got a really paranoid blogger.... come on... hot checks?
What the heck...the "government" is engaged, as we speak, in destroying our entire country by allowing immigrant criminals to invade without firing a shot. Microsoft and other software makers erasing pirated software from our hard drives is down in the grass compared to the illegal hordes.
On top of that, we are running out of oil because the "government" will not allow drilling for oil in places where great quantities of oil are known to be. Taxes are so high that it takes two people working to live a life somewhere above poverty....etc etc.....so it goes....
If you don't want to have somebody spying in your computer...don't get on line...or keep an "internet computer" that doesn't have anything on it except IE.
It might be paranoid but I would say rightfully so. MS is already a Monopoly and the fact that they will now use that advantage to spy on their customers is appalling and in violation of everything that the United States stands for.
I am not paranoid but pissed off. I will go out and buy a Mac if they start getting away with anything like this.
Bill Gates is a Bilderberger, so is Rummy, so is John Edwards...Draw your own conclusions.
Bill Gates is a Bilderberger, so is Rummy, so is John Edwards...Draw your own conclusions.
HAHA, yea. whatever.
20 bucks says it's compromise within 24 hours of it's release. Just like everything else thats ever been written. And some freek will use it as yet another application to use as a hook for his own evil application that you just got in your inbox.
"If you click that “accept” button on the routine user’s agreement, the proposed law would allow any company from whom you bought upgradable software the freedom to come onto your computer for “detection or prevention of the unauthorized use of or fraudulent or other illegal activities in connection with a network, service, or computer software, including scanning for and removing computer software prescribed under this act.”
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' However, Section 6 of the act says such a prohibition “shall not apply” to “telecommunications carrier, cable operator, computer hardware or software provider or provider of information service” and won’t apply to those companies in cases of “detection or prevention of the unauthorized use of or fraudulent or other illegal activities.” '
hmmm - seems like now might be a good time to become a computer programmer, write some really hot freeware with your own special EULA, and send it to Bill Gates, Soros, Kerry, etc. once many states and Congress enact something similar. Can't wait to get hard evidence of their plans, foibles, perversions, and crimes, heheh.
Seems like someone has forgotten that a sword is usually double-edged and cuts both ways, LOL..
Bump for the weekend crowd.
At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if Gates has a 666 on his scalp (a'la Damien from "The Omen"). In this case, Windows itself would be the mark of the beast. :)
You aren't lying my friend. Gates is like that Praetorian guy from "The Net". That is the movie with the girl from the bus...LOL
Anyway, I HAVE WINDOWS PROBLEMS!!! If anyone can help me erase the patch/download that scans for software and gives Microsoft warnings I would really appreciate it.
I received the software at Microsoft and dowmloaded it to my home PC. It was a giveaway while I was a MS reseller. It is a Not for Resale copy(NFR) and IS NOT an evaluation copy.
I have used it for 2 years and now I get 100 notices a day that their is a second IP address conflict on my OS. I have only had one PC and installed it once.
They don't offer a way to fix it and expect me to go and buy a copy.
Well, they can go twist in the wind and I will erase this warning system if at all possible.
Thanks in advance for any information.
Josh
It's like that old saying...if you can't beat your competition. kill your competition. That's exactly what Gates wants to do. Gates wants an OS monopoly...even if he has to use his globalist b***-buddies in Washington to pass laws which would legally mandate such a monopoly.
When the internet goes to Internet2, it will be even more restrictive. Internet2 will probably have propietary log-in software, and Internet2 could choose for its propietary log-in software to work only with Windows...and reverse-engineering such software to create a Mac or Linux version will probably be a federal felony. And what if the old internet gets shut down and forces everybody who wants to use the internet to go to Internet2? Would the sheeple migrate to Internet2 (where the propietary log-in software would work only with thumbprint scanners which are either built in or added on to computers)? Would the tech industry collapse? Would Fidonet and BBSes see a big boost?
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