Staticfree Blog 29 03 2002

Staticfree Blog

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I have been at home for 2 hours, 16 minutes, and 2 seconds. Before that, I was prowling the concrete wilderness.

Fri, 29 Mar 2002

I was using a computer in one of RIT's labs and discovered a rather scary thing: a spyware program called Ezula was installed on the workstation. It parses through the text of any website you browse looking for keywords, then highlighting and inserting links to advertisers inside your text. This is Not Good™.

Why is this scary? well, if it isn't blindingly obvious, having all the text you view parsed for keywords by a close-source third party with ulterior motives, perhaps even extracting keywords, is a great security risk. Perhaps you're using some corporate internal software and it decides that some of your private information is a keyword? I really need to stop using insecure public terminals... they're potentially more hazardous than a bathroom at a truck stop in NJ.

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