Posted on 10/01/2009 6:19:42 AM PDT by Phil Elmore
"...In other words, after you've blithely downloaded a plug-in that shares your computer's Internet connection and processing power with other, unknown computers, Octoshape might choose to alter just what it's doing, how it's doing it, or the extent to which it is using your computer, remotely updating the software on your machine to change it, and /they're not going to tell you/. Oh, they'll make a revision to the license agreement available on their website, sure – but when was the last time you actually read all of the details of any software agreement, much less reviewed revisions to the licensing agreements of every plug-in you're running on your Internet browser? How many Americans simply click "OK" and wait impatiently for various software updates to run, trusting the source and thus assuming that there is no danger?"
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
We are Borg.
Resistance is futile.
Prepare to be assimilated.
Google “uninstall octoshape” for 16,000 webpages of information.
I always use the ‘account mechanism’ for serious business work, and have toy accounts for playthings. That way you don’t get business stuff out on the internet. It’s simple to set up separate accounts for separate activities.
I do not think I have ever been to a CNN web site.
I am sure as Hell not going to download anything from
those Marxist.
It would be almost as bad as going to PMSNBC on the internet.
looky
As often as the CNN website screws up I doubt that they could pull off anything technical even if they tried. But I’m glad to know about this and would NEVER download some bizarre plug-in just to view propaganda.
Sounds like any other BitTorrent program. Which is getting more common lately. I think Windows 7 install has a p2p mode if you want to use that.
Whatever the specifics of this one, I’m happy to see businesses using BitTorrent to deliver content. Why set up a big server farm and pay for massive bandwidth when the users, with their almost unused upload bandwidth, can be sharing the data amongst themselves?
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