Re: Mail Bombing, DoS, and Spyware

From: Joel M. Eichen (joeleichen_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/09/05 

Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 17:08:09 -0500

On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 20:01:55 GMT, "CWatters"
<colin.watters@pandoraBOX.be> wrote:

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>"CWatters" <colin.watters@pandoraBOX.be> wrote in message
>news:3VfEd.26043$wg.1804409@phobos.telenet-ops.be...
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>> "Joel M. Eichen" <joeleichen@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:o913u0l3s3ic17q857f05a4gfm6danp7i2@4ax.com...
>> > That was my reaction too. I knew I had some and I was willing to live
>> > with that.
>>
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>I guess you never use a credit card to purchase online or use electronic
>banking?
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>http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2004/12/08/internet_accelerator_may_read_your.htm
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>Internet Accelerator May Read Your Credit Card Numbers

Wow!

I checked the page!

A must read.

Thanks.

Joel

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><snip> What this program does is akin to monitoring each and every possible
>activity you carry out on your computer. Marketscore in fact routes all of a
>user's surfing destinations through its own servers. There it analyzes the
>data to "create research reports on internet trends and e-commerce
>activities," according to Marketscore itself. Even data entered on secure
>websites -- such as passwords, ** credit card ** numbers and bank account
>numbers, information that is supposed to be viewable only by the sender and
>the intended recipient -- is accessible to Marketscore, as the company has
>developed a technology that allows it to view encrypted information.
>