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"Phoning home" without my permission is not OK

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Contributed by: thecloud Monday, November 01 2004 @ 07:52 PM PST

Product Platform: MacOS,MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

After my initial scare (has my machine been "owned" by this app, and is this a set of login names for script kiddies to use?), I realized it was probably a list of blocked registration names. Whatever its purpose, the point is that this program goes out and phones home without telling me, and there appears to be no way to turn off this behavior. Other programs that silently "phone home" have taken a lot of flak for it, and deservedly so. I don't see that there's any reason to trust (or use) a program that does something behind my back, no matter how good its features may be.   

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"Phoning home" without my permission is not OK - Jay Teo

The program is merely getting information from the server, not sending information to the server. Why the paranoia? If the author wanted to create a malicious app, why bother "phoning home" for a list of names? He could have simply embedded those information in the app itself.

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