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General Software Discussion / Re: AVG Antivirus Plans to Collect & Sell Your Personal Data to Advertisers?
« on: September 21, 2015, 08:41 PM »
The problem with Microsoft's anti-malware efforts is that it only alerts on detection of cracks and keygens while blissfully letting evil through.

Other than OS upgrades, when was the last time you saw the MSE *engine* upgraded (not signatures)?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Newer password keepers/form-fillers - anyone using Dashlane or 1Password?
« on: September 21, 2015, 08:37 PM »
The Master Password as a way to access one's sticky account was addressed in the beta forum.

Someone complained:
This is UNACCEPTABLE. I do NOT want to use my Master Password to access my Sticky Account. No assurance you can offer is adequate. I want StickyPass, or a reg code that licenses my software.

Give the present direction, you force me to change my Master Password with every upgrade where I have to reach my account. I want no part of the cloud, and that includes Master Password in in form/hash/salt.

Their reply:
That's exactly what it does not. We never ever use MP as a string for hashing. MP is used only locally to prove that you can decrypt a random string used later as an access token. Basically it is the same situation as if you download a special DB encrypted by your MP, containing just a registration string to prove you can decrypt it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: AVG Antivirus Plans to Collect & Sell Your Personal Data to Advertisers?
« on: September 20, 2015, 12:37 PM »
Oh, not only can it be right....it gets worse! According to this article:

http://www.techspot.com/news/62159-avg-updated-policy-explains-how-can-sell-users.html

An AVG spokesman explained that AVG has always sold users' data and it has always been disclosed in previous versions of their privacy policy, but it was not laid out in a plainspoken way.

And evidently this new transparent privacy policy is already up on AVG's site for anyone to peruse themselves.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox drastically bleeding market share
« on: September 20, 2015, 12:30 PM »
I don't know why everyone's surprised that Firefox's market share is dwindling. This is exactly what is expected to happen when a company turns its back on its founding mission statement and becomes what the company founders professed to hate...and was the reason why they founded the company in the first place.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Pale Moon and Firefox - The Honeymoon Period is Over
« on: September 19, 2015, 05:59 PM »
I wasn't talking about deleting anything. I was talking about the fact that if you installed it, and it immediately had this list, it just culled it from your OS.  It didn't cultivate this list itself.  It was just revealing what was there.
-wraith808 (September 18, 2015, 03:50 PM)

I could be wrong, but I think the point Tao was trying to make is not where this list came from or why the list was there, but why would a browser have access to the last 15 days activity on his PC? For what purpose did the developer program this 'feature'?

I, for one, do not see why a browser would need to keep track of any of my activities other than browsing & download history. If a web browser is keeping track of what videos I watch, what Word documents I open, and what files I copy to what directories then that browser needs to be uninstalled. I have never used SlimJet and if this is not the kind of activity Tao means then please ignore my ramblings.

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