On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:01:45 -0500, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, "Richard S.
Westmoreland" <richardsw@suscom.net> wrote:
>
[snip]
>
> Why on earth would a respectable hardware vendor intentionally incorporate
> any form of malware into a device driver?
>
[snip]

You cant *really* be that naive, can you?

Putatively "respectable" hardware vendors are at the core of the most
ambitious and insidious spyware-deployment effort to date:

<http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4360793.stm>
<http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200104/200104.htm>
<http://www.notcpa.org/>
<http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html>
<http://www.scs.unr.edu/~raife/rants/tcpa/tcpa.html>

> Your post is either fabricated, or, if what you say is true, then the
> company is facing some quality control issues or a website hack.

It's pretty obvious that "Dennis" is a bit of a dipstick; but given that
others have now chimed in with some "Me Too! posts, it's reasonably likely
that *something* is amiss. Whether that is due to incompetence or malice,
I'll leave you to decide.

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