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Article #346Re: Zone Alarm - Why I don't trust it
From: Christopher Anthistle
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:00
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f922c,7f48db9e711ba7be X-Google-Attributes: gidf922c,public X-Google-Thread: 10c8f2,7f48db9e711ba7be X-Google-Attributes: gid10c8f2,public X-Google-Thread: 112049,7f48db9e711ba7be X-Google-Attributes: gid112049,public From: bi446@torfree.net (Christopher Anthistle) Subject: Re: Zone Alarm - Why I don't trust it Date: 2000/03/21 Message-ID: <Frso4y.GLG.0.queen@torfree.net> X-Deja-AN: 600622851 References: <Frrozx.rF.0.queen@torfree.net> <8b7tnh$7ss$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <ty4AdwA79314EwnF@crowfam.demon.co.uk> Organization: Toronto Free-Net Followup-To: comp.security.firewalls,can.internet.highspeed,alt.comp.freeware Newsgroups: comp.security.firewalls,can.internet.highspeed,alt.comp.freeware