Xref: utzoo comp.org.eff.talk:2314 alt.privacy:530 alt.censorship:2180 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!martian!rjz From: rjz@martian.UUCP (Robert J. Zepeda) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,alt.privacy,alt.censorship Subject: Re: Prodigy charged with invading users' privacy Message-ID: Date: 3 May 91 01:47:32 GMT References: <1991Apr30.184714.4675@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1991Apr30.185752.4913@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <57M001546bv800@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <1991May1.224418.8409@riacs.edu> Organization: Central Texas Amiga Computer Society Lines: 8 One way to check if Prodigy is rummaging thru the files is for someone to use a dos emulator and unix directories. If Prodigy is out rummaging thru files the unix last accessed date should change. If Prodigy is using low level calls to read raw disk sectors then Prodigy should crash. I know HP and IBM make suitable emulators for this experiment. It should also be legal since you are not disassembling code.