> Not so scary if you're installed the application yourself, and you > trust > them... Do you trust google? :)
It's certainly getting to be less and less. Since they're detecting things like Adobe, Picasa, Google Earth, Skype, RealPlayer, Google Desktop ... Some of which, I know, have browser plugins (which I habitually disable) ... and some of which have no browser plugins... Since they're detecting some things that have no browser plugin, it stands to reason, they're making a call to a client-side application that I must have installed with some previous installer (such as Chrome, Picasa, or Google Earth.) It just doesn't feel right, makes my skin crawl to know they're habitually and without asking, checking to see what I've got in my computer. They could look for anything they want, get any information they want, out of me, with or without letting me know they got it. Well ... Maybe they did ask, in one of the 40-page long EULA's that I accepted in some previous application install. It's not much of a stretch to start calling this spyware. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
