Hmmm... I'm somewhat bemused by this. Especially because it has prompted me
to speak up in favour of M$ - something I never thought I would do.
They have (rightly) been extensively criticised for releasing products
which, in the rare event they have any security facilities at all, by
default have those features turned OFF and you have to consciously turn them
on. The end result is that the majority of installations probably don't
implement any kind of security and all Internet users suffer the
consequences of a huge installed base of insecure machines.
Perceived wisdom is that the evil giant should ship its products so that the
default is a "safe" mode, and if you need to disable security features then
you turn them off by deliberate choice. Seems to me that they have finally
gone along with what people have asked them to do - and now get accused of
nannying.
The solution IS to dump it! Unfortunately some of us are given no choice ;-)
Stuart
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Trent [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 06 February 2004 08:17
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [OT] M$ exasperates me!
By the way, that interesting line "BLOCKED......" below seems to be a
feature of M$ Outlook 2003. I use it as a "non Exchange" email client and
the wretched thing is designed to block what M$ allegedly calls "unsafe
attachments".
BUT I want to send and receive these allegedly unsafe attachments because I
(a) have an industrial grade virus checker, and (b) am grown up and do not
want to be nannied, Especially by M$. The USA does NOT know what is good
for me, and I mistrust Gates! (unless locked behind me, of course, to keep
the sheep in).
M$ "help" text has improved, but it gives me no clue about how to turn this
freaking nannying off. Anyone here had any success?
The very idea of M$ saying what I can and cannot send and receive (I failed
to receive a small M$ Access database yesterday cos Billy doesn't trust his
own darned products) is appalling.
The solution is not "Dump Outlook", tempting as that may be.
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Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 8:02 AM
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Subject: [data-protection] Web Beacons
Yahoo, a widely used web location, has introduced Web Beacons by stealth.
They have suddenly arrived.
<BLOCKED::http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/pixels/details.html>
http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/pixels/details.html tells how to opt out
of these. But the FACT of beacons is not clearly notified in any place that
I have seen on Yahoo "property". Now the question is, "Do Web Beacons count
as Cookies?"
Tim Trent - Consultant
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