Like their Privacy Policy ?
qwerty
Harry Lime wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 06:11:20 GMT, med...@shore.net wrote:
>
> >:) Unfortunately,
> >:)piracy is much higher than that (I know, since I can see the number
> >:)of keygen and stolen code attempts to register QT every day) and
> >:)the measures are needed.
>
> OK I think we have come to a place of closure here.
>
> You resent that I assume that you are a data miner.
>
> I resent that you assume that I am a pirate.
>
> We each think we have "evidence" that the other finds inconvenient to
> accept.
>
> Time to go our separate ways. Bye.
I did not visited newsgroups for a while and see that all my links
expired. The only I see is your last message in this thread.
I prepared respond to medved but text grown to enormous size
not worth of continuing. Of course,
I still have questions to him which security experts here are
welcome to comment. But in essence, leaving aside all irony,
the only I can suggest to author is to offer versions of QT let's call it
bronze (current free version),
gold (current ad free version for $60) and
platinum (no link to developer server, probably even more expensive)
with last one is doing : no leacking, no tracking, no autoupgrades, no ad
If platinum is impossible in this or other form, then all following
discussions have no sense. Being too expensive for platinum is not acceptable too,
because some another solutions (see suggestion below)
offers ultimate security at acceptable cost.
Due to 500+ titles for similar software I can not accept just to
trust each of their developers without additional security measures from my side.
Trust must be insured. I.e. if some software offer trading online
then it must provide whole service like all E-trades/Dateks/etc do
with insurances appropriate to my funds.
If it is not insured then I prefer only *stealth* solution when no
leack is possible even potentially.
I stopped with the following scenario of using of all of such software
(not just medved). Your miles may vary.
That means to install 'leacky' software you want on separate clean PC with OS only.
Use it for just information purposes (market analysis, charting etc.)
and never allow to visit online trader.
Some small questions to security/privacy experts still remain:
- because software could be advare/spyware, it sends clicks-throughs,
sends some info to developers site etc can user of PC be eventually personalized?
- can ISP's username/passwords be captured (say, if some of this software
will be real spyware) ?
The software which communicates with online trader
must not leack anything to developers or other places,
must not autoupgrade,
must be on separate PC too and
not visit any other sites besides trusted online trader, even Microsoft.com
(just to be consistent ;-( )
This is *price for ultimate security* , which looks acceptable.
What privacy/security folks think about this ?