nice personal attacks, a great display of your intellect.
>My first post in this thread claimed that Cringely was spreading FUD, and
>had provided no evidence to back up his claim.
No your first post was this
>Without seeing the content of these packets, I don't see how Cringely can
>claim to know whether there's anything spyware or not about it. There is no
>*evidence* for his claim. I'm always suspicious of people who claim to have
>observed 'spyware phoning home' but who are then completely unable to give
>any details about the contents or destination of the packets, since it means
>that they are claiming something that they don't actually know at all.
His only claim was that zonealarm "phones home" even when all the
communication options are disabled. I can't find any claim of spyware
as you indicated. His claim of a phone home bug has been vindicated by
Zonelabs/Checkpoint's response to the list and the admission of the
bug.
Like I said before, it's up to the people on the list to decide if
this is a issue for them or not. Not for a arrogant fool like you to
force his opinion onto people.
go ride your high horse over to letters_at_infoworld.com
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