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In article <4035gt$53c@dfw.nkn.net>, gray@fastlane.net wrote:

> In <pharmacy-0508952141310001@dialup-5-145.gw.umn.edu>,
pharmacy@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Patrick B. Parker) writes:
> 
> ..
> >The point is that it shouldn't be there, and it should have never been put
> >there.  It's none of Microsoft's business whatsoever, and furthermore,
> >many less computer literate people aren't going to understand what they're
> >doing when they go ahead with sending off the information to MS.
> ..
> 
> I can just see MS sniffing out some poor user's drive and finding an 
> illegal copy of DOS/Windows on there that, was put on by the PC vendor
> which the user believes he paid for, and MS sending the software police
> to their door.  They ask him to produce the original disks, and he says
> "They didn't give me any, I didn't know I needed any."
>
as somebody esle pointed out a few posts ago - worrying aobut MS getting
to your data is only a small portion of hte problem.  Not that I'd put it
past them if the computers belonged to a largecompetitor (Novell, IBM,
APPLE...). The problem is that this is a hunk of stuff designed to allow
outside access to your system.  It's NOT like a modem and calling online
services.  With the Registration Wizard attached, any sufficiently clever
person can get into your system and basically rape it.
That's even if you tell it "NO".  as long as it's attached.

This isn't even POTENTIALLY the most dangerous new device in computer
history.. it IS the most dangerous.

Sure, you don't have to install it.. you shouldn't have the option -it
should NOT exist

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