Privacy =(

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Hi there,

I have found a site where someone says that those downloadmanagers like gozilla do spying on the files you download and other themes regarding privacy. I was quite shocked =(
I have heard about those privacy holes before but never thought that it could be that worse !
Maybe you should have a look as well:

(Spam deleted. --Gaudere)

Let me know what you think about this !

Kind regards

Martin

[Edited by Gaudere on 10-04-2000 at 10:02 AM]

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Gosh. There’s about two sentences of information on that page that strangely echo your questions. There’re also several big,ugly ads for that Alex Chiu geek who has the magic immortality rings. I’d strongly advise, and I know you would too, Martin/Protien, that everyone avoid clicking on either of those two Alex Chiu links.

And if you really do care about privacy,
http://grc.com/optout.htm
seems to have quite a bit of information on spyware that’s actual information, rather than regurgiated sound bites
But I’m not really sure where the debate, great or otherwise is here.

Fenris

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One other amazing fact. The header on the page seems to be for that Alex Chiu looney too. It really looks like an Alex (“I’m a kook”) Chiu shill page than an actual info site. (The header “Have you thought about the possibility to stay alive forever?”)

I’m sure we’ll see you in here again Protien/Martin telling us how you were also duped by the slick, professional look of that page and had no idea that it was another Alex “My Magic Rings’ll let you fly to the MOON” Chiu site.

Fenris

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Since the Alex Chiu thing has once again reared its head.

waterj2 already pointed out that this was posted on a bullitin board on Mr. Chiu’s site.

From : http://www.alexchiu.com/howtoad/messages/c28.html
Subject: 200 hits a day. Just 5 minutes labor. Post your link code on straightdope.com .

I’m sure this has nothing to do with PROTEIN though :rolleyes:

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They are saying on their message board that they should spam our board?!?!?

Anyone wanna visit that message board and show them what spam really is?

[sub]Note: I am not suggesting we actually do this. I mean, retalliation is not very nice or ethical. But it’s a nice thought…[/sub]

Yer pal,
Satan - Commissioner, The Teeming Minions

*I HAVE BEEN SMOKE-FREE FOR:
Five months, three weeks, four days, 12 hours, 13 minutes and 48 seconds.
7140 cigarettes not smoked, saving $892.55.
Extra life with Drain Bead: 3 weeks, 3 days, 19 hours, 0 minutes.

*“I’m a big Genesis fan.”-David B. (Amen, brother!) **

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Will you give me a dollar, Satan?
(Note: This board does not encourage people to spam other sites. Doing so would be a violation of board policy (“don’t be a jerk”), and even worse, takes you down to their level. Do NOT spam other sites, no matter how much they piss you off.)

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Have to agree with Satan on that one. Don’t want to SPAM that Board.

I do think that I may have some questions about their device to ask on their “Medical Bulletin Board”
www.alexchiu.com/bulletin/wwwboard.html

Just to enlighten myself about their product.

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Actually, I just tried to post a message there - not SPAM, just a little “stop SPAMMING us, it’s against both of our rules” comment (I swear) - and the message is not posted until someone from the board reviews the message.

So, the board administrators have to approve everything that gets posted.

On one hand, it makes us spamming the board impossible. But on the other, it shows that the board administrators DO encourage this shit. Or at least do not stop it.

If any of our administrators would like to try and do something about this in a more correct, moderator-type way, here is the registrar information for the site:


Registrant:
alex chiu (ALEXCHIU-DOM)
   PO Box 16547
   San Francisco, CA 94116

   Domain Name: ALEXCHIU.COM

   Administrative Contact, Billing Contact:
      chiu, alex  (AC2478)  alexc@MYMAILSTATION.COM
      alex chiu
      po box 16547
      san francisco, CA 94116
      415 585 3825 (FAX) 415 587 3763
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      XXI, Cyber  (JC16310)  support@CGIGURU.COM
      Cyber XXI
      119 North Parker, Box 161
      Olathe, KS 66061
      913-829-8099 (FAX) xxx-xxx-xxxx

   Record last updated on 06-May-2000.
   Record expires on 07-May-2001.
   Record created on 06-May-1997.
   Database last updated on 3-Oct-2000 01:25:50 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS1.CYBERXXI.COM		206.153.141.240
   NS2.CYBERXXI.COM		206.153.141.241

Fuck 'em up, please?

Yer pal,
Satan - Commissioner, The Teeming Minions

*I HAVE BEEN SMOKE-FREE FOR:
Five months, three weeks, four days, 12 hours, 44 minutes and 8 seconds.
7141 cigarettes not smoked, saving $892.65.
Extra life with Drain Bead: 3 weeks, 3 days, 19 hours, 5 minutes.

*“I’m a big Genesis fan.”-David B. (Amen, brother!)

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[Moderator Hat ON]

Bad Spammer! BAD!

I’m locking this and removing direct spam-links.

[Moderator Hat OFF]