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Fox News + Computers = ?
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Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:25:16
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As I've written about in the past, the media is terrible with regard to technology.  It would be fine if they were ignorant, but spreading it is the problem.  There's always misinformation abound, and throw in some Fox News and you've really got yourself something.

Fox News on the site cars.gov


You'd think they were juggling chainsaws with the disclosures on this.  DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME.  Congratulations, it's your first time reading an End-User License Agreement (EULA).  In case you didn't know already, EULAs are always ridiculous.  The Chrome EULA originally listed everything you did on the Internet as property of Google.  Everything you post on Facebook is property of Facebook.  Everything you do anywhere is property of Company X.  It's in nearly every piece of software you've ever used.


On the technical end, this specific instance is meaningless.  It states that they have full access, but no, they do not have full access.  Despite fear-monger central, there isn't a secret backdoor that lets the evil computer people monitor everything you ever do and all of your files.  While there are a disconcertingly high number of unpatched and improperly secured Windows machines out there, it's not a simply just going through the list of logged in users and taking a peek at their harddrives.


And guess what, no, in general, it's not really considered legal.  The general agreement is that the nature of EULAs are unenforceable and would not stand up in court, though precedence is lacking.

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Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:54:30
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I have never read a UELA and never will.

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Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:04:44
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Too fucking funny.

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Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:12:18
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   "It's like an octopus with regenerating tentacles every five seconds".  That's a quote.  I'm sorry, but if you watch FOX News you are a fucking moron.

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Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:16:36
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Last time I five-star a video while you're online Nyaa

Turns out Glen Beck was lying (what else is new), that message only pops up when DEALERS try to log into the website, not the general public anyway.

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Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:27:34
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^ Not unexpected, though I couldn't check myself since the site was down at the time of writing.

As an additional piece of information on this, while Skype has had security issues, the structure is that calls are encrypted in transit.  You can't simply listen to Skype calls like you would tap a phone line.
Edited: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:28:51

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