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Article #9627Re: Prodigy Rip-Off?!?
From: ONG ENG TENG
Date: Wed, 01 May 1991 18:47
Date: Wed, 01 May 1991 18:47
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From article <1991May1.161749.25807@agate.berkeley.edu>, by raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen): > Interested readers should follow the discussion in comp.risks. > > One theory is that the information enters the Prodigy files purely > by accident when the Prodigy software requests disk buffers from DOS > and doesn't bother to zero them out. So whatever leftover junk was > in the disk buffer makes its way into your Prodigy file. > > `Don't attribute to maliciousness what can easily be explained by stupidity.' First I like to say that I ran a small test and find the above to be true. But... What if Prodigy knows of this "problem" with DOS and delibrately use it to upload the "junk" to their main computer for evaluation for whatever purpose, knowing full well that they could blame it on DOS if things should go to court. Can someone with Prodigy and some software savy debug the Prodigy software to see if the STAGE.DAT file is somehow uploaded to their main computer?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!uokmax!d.cs.okstate.edu!ong From: ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Prodigy Rip-Off?!? Message-ID: <1991May1.184727.22850@d.cs.okstate.edu> Date: 1 May 91 18:47:27 GMT References: <1991May1.161749.25807@agate.berkeley.edu> Organization: Oklahoma State University Lines: 21