Hi List...
I wouldnt forward material that I didnt think was, well outstanding!
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From: "InfoSec News" <isn@c4i.org>
> http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/02/11/020211opfoster.xml
>
> BILL GATES SAYS security is Microsoft's top priority, but just whose
> security does he have in mind? Consider some of Microsoft's recent
> boilerplate legalese -- language you or your company might already
> have unknowingly accepted -- and then decide for yourself.
>
> The language is contained in the Product Use Rights (PUR) document
> that can be found at www.microsoft.com/licensing/resources. As the PUR
> document is part of most customers' volume license agreements and is
> subject to periodic change, in theory Microsoft customers should check
> it regularly to see what rights Microsoft has decided to grant or take
> away.
>
> You can be forgiven if you feel like you have better things to do with
> your life than reading and rereading all this mind-numbing legal
> gobbledygook. Fortunately, one Microsoft customer did review the PUR
> document recently and noticed a change. In the section on Windows XP
> Professional, he found the "Internet-Based Services Components"
> paragraph that said in part, "You acknowledge and agree that Microsoft
> may automatically check the version of the Product and/or its
> components that you are utilizing and may provide upgrades or fixes to
> the Product that will be automatically downloaded to your Workstation
> Computer."
>
> The reader was stunned. "By changing that term in the PUR, Microsoft
> has found a creative way to obtain authorization from users to access
> their workstations at will," he said. "How many customers are going to
> review this PDF file and realize they've given Microsoft this right?
> And all the risk for the security and privacy violations due to this
> are neatly put on the customer's shoulders, not Microsoft's."
>
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Cheers
Jason
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