Do you like their Privacy ?
qwerty
and my firewall started to report attempts to connect
to internet to 127.0.0.1. Seems it is local conection,
but I am no sure. Then I found company's Privacy policy and...
please read and decide yourselves:
1) "Periodically, ABCTracker attempts to connect to ABCServer
servers to determine whether a new version of ABCTracker
or one of it's support files is available for download.
ABCTracker does not send any information to the server
during this process"
2) "ABCTracker connects to ABCServer servers when it is started
and sends the server information indicating if it is the
first time it is started in a given day, week or month.
It also indicates if the user is registered or not. That
is the only information that is sent in this request.
We use this information to count the number of unique
ABCTracker users and to analyze the data to understand
how often ABCTracker is used (in aggregate). This information
is never tied to specific user's IP address or any other
identifying information unless a false registration code
is detected (in a separate request specific to registered users)....
3) "ABCTracker is registered, it will connect to ABCServer
servers to verify registration every time you run it.
ABCTracker sends the registration code together with
a unique ID specific to the computer to ABCServer servers.
This information is used for registration verification
only. If the verification is successful, then the information
about the verification request is immediately discarded.
If the verification fails, then the verification information
is logged, including the registration code, unique ID and IP Address"
Do you like it ?
Your comments please.
PR
for it before I installed it. Sounds like one of the download programs I
really liked before I discovered it was tracking me all over the Web. It
didn't take me long to get it off of my machine. Confusing to me item 2
seems to nullify 1) and 3) 2)
PR
"qwerty" <NotRe...@NotReal.net> wrote in message
news:3A43EF7C...@NotReal.net...
: I installed some financial software, let's call it ABCTracker,
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qwerty
PR wrote:
> I don't know what this program does but I would have to have a pressing need
> for it before I installed it. Sounds like one of the download programs I
> really liked before I discovered it was tracking me all over the Web. It
> didn't take me long to get it off of my machine. Confusing to me item 2
> seems to nullify 1) and 3) 2)
> PR
>
Thanks for respond.
Sorry for little typo in #3, I missed "If... "
It should start "If ABCTracker is registered..."
With existing state of this software, they may easily (like with cookies)
know who is using it, when user starts program, is software registered or
not etc.
This reminds me unfamous accident with Microsoft's Win98 beta
http://www.chguy.net/news/mar99/Andtheycallmenuts.html
or Intel's CPU ID...
Funny to me, they responded that their registration security is far better
than Microsoft's, which is also why their piracy rate is much lower.
And of course that If I or another end user do not like it,
I do not have to use it.
So seems they care about piracy of their software (which is free if
you do not bother with not as annoying ad they place in small windows),
more than about our privacy and security.
The reason why *I strongly do not like* all communication with their servers
(which is absolutely not neaded for operation of software) is because
next simple step for them is to encrypt your username and password
in brockerage (you provide it for application to start trading or just
to see real time quotes) and send to their servers.
Am I exaggerating situation too much? Opinions are appreciated.