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>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... 

Let me rebut this by asking you two questions:

1) Is the source code to Netscape freely available?

2) Is the source code to the Microsoft netowrk freely available?

If the source code is available, it is a simple matter of combing the 
source code to find backdoors that do this kind of thing. If the source 
code is not available, one has to resort to using sniffers to look at 
what is going over your phone line.

UNIX does have it's advantages.

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