Thursday, 8. April 2004
Topic: COMPUTER - on April 8, 2004 at 6:54:00 PM CEST
The Pure Software Act of 2006
100 years ago, Congress passed a law requiring honest labeling of food and drugs. Now the time has come to do the same for software.
Spyware is the scourge of desktop computing. Yes, computer worms and viruses cause billions of dollars in damage every year. But spyware—programs that either record your actions for later retrieval or that automatically report on your actions over the Internet—combines commerce and deception in ways that most of us find morally repugnant.
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