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Re: Zone Alarm - Why I don't trust it

#346
From: Christopher Anthistle
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:00
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Pointless trying encryption to stop registry scans by other Companies. 
Too many already write this type of information in plain text, including 
Microsoft - it is easy to find user's real name and email for example 
from Microsoft entries.

And, by the way, somebody else posted a message to this thread indicating 
I may be trying to scam the newsgroup - yes my message was cross posted to a 
total of 3 newsgroups all of which were "on topic", but nothing stated in 
my original message is untrue and I do not have any history of posting 
untrue messages.  This is a real address at a real ISP and has been used 
by me for newsgroup postings for many years.  It is not my main email 
address as I don't want that cluttered with spam, but it is a real email
and any non spam messages to it will be read and if called for responded to.

Christopher Anthistle

Jim Crowther (replies@crowfam.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: In article <8b7tnh$7ss$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, MooNPuP <lisciotti@my-
: deja.com> writes
: >Did you ever stop to think that the reason your registry entry is
: >encrypted is because maybe they care about your privacy and assuming
: >you put in legitimate information, they are preveneting other companies
: >from scanning your registry and finding your personal information??
: >Maybe they are just ahead of their time...

: Quite.

: -- 
: Jim Crowther
: Mailto:jim@crowfam.demon.co.uk
: Public PGP keys at ldap://certserver.pgp.com (and others)
: Key ID 0xE0BCE5F1 (DH/DSS 2048/1024), 0x8A673777 (RSA 1024)
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From: bi446@torfree.net (Christopher Anthistle)
Subject: Re: Zone Alarm - Why I don't trust it
Date: 2000/03/21
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