On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 01:47:01 GMT, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, "Johnathan David
Hawke" <dropdead@spammers.get.a.life> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 04:17:49 -0700, Tom Reynolds wrote:
> Frankly, I have allowed both third party net-sniffers and third party
> firewalls run on my WP-Pro box for some time, and have never seen a time
> in which my computer tried to connect to a computer that was owned by MS,
> This phone home theory seems to be lacking in any hard evidence.
[snip]

Then either your tools are broken (as all so-called "software firewalls"
are, by definition) or you simply haven't been paying attention. See:

<http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm>
or <http://www.futurepower.net/microsoft.htm>

for a starting point.

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Jay T. Blocksom
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usenet01[at]appropriate-tech.net


"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

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