Xref: utzoo comp.org.eff.talk:2288 alt.privacy:503 alt.censorship:2126 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!midway!midway.uchicago.edu!francis From: francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,alt.privacy,alt.censorship Subject: Re: Prodigy charged with invading users' privacy Message-ID: Date: 2 May 91 04:05:15 GMT Article-I.D.: magrathe.FRANCIS.91May1220515 References: <1991Apr30.185752.4913@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1991Apr30.225133.8165@craycos.com> <1991May1.051734.24594@pcserver2.naitc.com> <1991May1.215612.2978@ruacad.ac.runet.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (NewsMistress) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 27 In-Reply-To: leng@ruacad.ac.runet.edu's message of 1 May 91 21: 56:12 GMT In article <1991May1.215612.2978@ruacad.ac.runet.edu> leng@ruacad.ac.runet.edu (Lud Eng) writes: >In article <1991May1.051734.24594@pcserver2.naitc.com> kdenning@genesis.Naitc.Com (Karl Denninger) writes: >>Since you zeroed all unallocated areas on the drive before you began, there >>is no way the STAGE.DAT file could have gotten private data in it unless the >>software is scanning your fixed disk drive. >> >>This should provide rather conclusive proof one way or the other. >Karl, > As someone else pointed out, this is not conclusive. Due to the way >the Prodigy software works, it may well be trying to buffer to the hard >drive even if it's not installed there. If there is indeed a bug in it, Read the post you're following up to. He said to zero the unallocated areas; that means there shouldn't be any place for them to claim that has actual data in it. -- /============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Should five percent appear too small, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | Be thankful I don't take it all. "Taxman" | \============================================================================/