Saturday, April 05, 2008
BT Installs Spyware
It seems we're now in less control of our own computers. Now BT had admitted installing spyware on customer's PCs.
Whenever I hear about police seizing computers, it almost makes me laugh except it's so serious. Just because something is on someone's computer, it doesn't prove a thing. Companies like Sony and BT (and those are just the ones we know of) are installing software on our computers that could be doing absolutely anything.
There is a petition that you can sign to ask the Government to investigate this kind of activity. Until then I'd play safe and install Linux at the very least.
Whenever I hear about police seizing computers, it almost makes me laugh except it's so serious. Just because something is on someone's computer, it doesn't prove a thing. Companies like Sony and BT (and those are just the ones we know of) are installing software on our computers that could be doing absolutely anything.
There is a petition that you can sign to ask the Government to investigate this kind of activity. Until then I'd play safe and install Linux at the very least.
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Linux won't stop Phorm. Their system is linked into the ISP so that requests for a web page go though their hardware for analysis. A bit more than spy ware, I'm afraid. The only way to stop it is to switch to an ISP that doesn't use Phorm - even opting out isn't enough.
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