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Posted by FatKat on 10/18/98 11:29
anthonyberet wrote:
> FatKat wrote:
> > Amun wrote:
> >
> >>"FatKat" <robynari@juno.com> wrote in message
> >>news:1129299040.387353.172960@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> >>
> >>>Just to go into conspiracy-theory mode, taking over the network
> >>>provides a golden opportunity to acquire control of a system known by
> >>>its users as being spyware-free. I wouldn't be surprised if, a few
> >>>years down the road after one side does grab and maintain dominance
> >>>over the network, we see a new version of the client software riddled
> >>>with Trojans and other malware.
> >>>
> >>
> >>oh, oh.
> >>
> >>Have we inadvertently stumbled into a script of Austin Powers next movie ?
> >
> >
> > Nah, just the sad story of Kazaa & Kazaa-Lite.
> >
> >
> >>Where Dr. Evil holds the worlds winmx users hostage and threatens to bring
> >>down the network if the worlds governments don't cough up ONE MILLION
> >>DOLLARS
> >>
> >
> > Won't have to demand anything - just install spyware on millions of
> > PC's. You can DL everything you want, but only by clicking on a banner
> > that describes Dr. Evil's plans for world domination.
> >
>
> That isn't going to happen is it? Without the official source of winmx,
> it will only be available to the cognisant, and spyware is one thing up
> with which they will not put.
I've always thought WinMX was usable only by those who understood how
it worked, yet every week, we gets tons of messages just begging to be
Hammerered. If it's not the laziness, it's the stupid arrogance ("I
spoke to people who know this stuff, and they say that what I say makes
sense.")
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