Return-Path: <sentto-279987-4470-1013753155-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Thu, 14 Feb 2002 22:28:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 16458 invoked by uid 510); 15 Feb 2002 06:06:09 -0000 Received: from n1.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.51) by all.net with SMTP; 15 Feb 2002 06:06:09 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-4470-1013753155-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [216.115.97.166] by n1.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Feb 2002 06:05:55 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_2); 15 Feb 2002 06:05:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 26783 invoked from network); 15 Feb 2002 06:05:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m12.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 15 Feb 2002 06:05:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (12.232.72.152) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Feb 2002 06:05:54 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g1F6Psk09088 for iwar@onelist.com; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 22:25:54 -0800 Message-Id: <200202150625.g1F6Psk09088@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 22:25:54 -0800 (PST) Subject: [iwar] [fc:Microsoft.changes.Windows.XP.online.'Product.Use.Rights'] Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Microsoft changes Windows XP online 'Product Use Rights' InfoWorld, 2/14/02 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/02/11/020211opfoster.xml">http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/02/11/020211opfoster.xml> BILL GATES SAYS security is Microsoft's top priority, but just whose security does he have in mind? Consider some of Microsoft's recent boilerplate legalese -- language you or your company might already have unknowingly accepted -- and then decide for yourself. The language is contained in the Product Use Rights (PUR) document that can be found at www.microsoft.com/licensing/resources. As the PUR document is part of most customers' volume license agreements and is subject to periodic change, in theory Microsoft customers should check it regularly to see what rights Microsoft has decided to grant or take away. You can be forgiven if you feel like you have better things to do with your life than reading and rereading all this mind-numbing legal gobbledygook. Fortunately, one Microsoft customer did review the PUR document recently and noticed a change. In the section on Windows XP Professional, he found the "Internet-Based Services Components" paragraph that said in part, "You acknowledge and agree that Microsoft may automatically check the version of the Product and/or its components that you are utilizing and may provide upgrades or fixes to the Product that will be automatically downloaded to your Workstation Computer." The reader was stunned. "By changing that term in the PUR, Microsoft has found a creative way to obtain authorization from users to access their workstations at will," he said. "How many customers are going to review this PDF file and realize they've given Microsoft this right? And all the risk for the security and privacy violations due to this are neatly put on the customer's shoulders, not Microsoft's." ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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