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Programmer’s Challenge: Reversing the Spyware Model

Posted: Wednesday, May 10th, 2006 @ 9:37 am in Definitions | No Comments »

There is such thing as spyware, despite the news reports. No, really. I’ve been saying that since last year. But to review: Spyware is software that sends personally-identifiable information back to its publisher. But the software publishers involved all claim to send NON-personally-identifiable information back, and to be adware publishers. Therefore, there is no such [...]