It's A Lock.......
We are ALL over Gate's barrell.......
>>Smith fingered the authors using a unique identifier that Microsoft Word saves in documents, including the document used to launch Melissa. That identifier is based on a unique number that comes with a computer's network card, or that Word creates on its own if no network card is present.
Privacy advocates have criticized the features, and Microsoft has posted software that let people turn off the feature or wipe those traces out of their Word files.
When Smith found the number and asked for help, Frederik Bjorck of Sweden found virus files on some Web sites, including Source of Kaos, that matched the identifier.>>
This is really quite scary.
Once you take freedom away you have to fight like hell to get it back. Hilter walked into France and Poland - all quite easy, but look at that it took to reclaim this loss. This is an amazing time in world history. A monopoly - Microsoft - has the goods on every document ever released into the Internet. Now we have BIG BROTHER and BILL peeping behind our virtual shoulder.
IMHO, this is grounds for ending all use of Microsoft products. Impossible?? Highly unlikely for there just a vast wasteland of sheep that really don't care, period. This word is NOT getting out. People don't have a clue what's going on.
I do not want my government working lock-step with a monopoly to open up, track and follow all of our virtual comings and goings. How do you spell BLACKMAIL??? I've questioned the DOJ's case against Microsoft all along. I know this sounds crazy, but the potential for power and abuse is incredible here. This is the equivalent to the atom bomb on some of our most basic freedoms. And for government, the beauty is that few understand what's going on in the firstplace.
Excuse me for getting so worked up, but this really brings home the dark side of the watermark story. Now that government found a reason to justify walking through Mr. Smith's front & back doors they've set a precedent for justifying doing the same for everyone else.
I don't excuse Mr. Smith for anything he did, but I'm thinking he should make plans to go to Washington and perhaps Congress should convene hearings on virtual privacy. Haul Gates before Congress. I'd sure like to have more of an explanation for what they've been doing with all this stored data that could be used against us.
Perhaps this is Gates' revenge. |
