Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola

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From: Adam L
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 04:58

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Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> wrote:

>Can Microsoft prove that it is not possible, using Win95 and the Microsoft Network 
>for Microsoft to upload whatever they want from your machine to Microsoft?  I also 
>am beginning to wonder if it might be possible for Microsoft to download whatever 
>they want from Microsoft into your machine without your knowledge...

Of course not.  They shouldn't have to.  Can you prove that America
Online, Prodigy, Compuserve aren't sucking your hard drive away bit by
bit with every keystroke you send over the modem?  How about netscape?
Maybe every time you access a web page, it secretely goes to the
netscape home page and transmits one more directory name... Maybe all
the winsock companies are in on it, too, slowly leeching your private
information, then selling it on the black market... 

Give me a break.  It's not as if this was a 'hidden' feature of MSN...

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Subject: Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 04:58:47 GMT
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