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From: jonm@microsoft.UUCP (Jonathan MARK)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Prodigy charged with invading users' privacy
Message-ID: <72144@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 91 16:08:07 GMT
References: <1991Apr30.185752.4913@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1991Apr30.225133.8165@craycos.com> <1991May1.051734.24594@pcserver2.naitc.com> <Ac7hkIM91EAf4CjIFp@rchland.ibm.com>
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In article <Ac7hkIM91EAf4CjIFp@rchland.ibm.com> seurer+@rchland.ibm.com (Bill Seurer) writes:
>The Prodigy experiment

Thanks for shedding some light on the subject!

>The *ONLY*
>non-Prodigy thing that I saw was a copy of my environment variables
>(COMPSEC, PATH, and PROMPT).

I should point out that Prodigy could get a good idea of which commercial
software packages are installed, just by uploading the contents of
PATH.  This could be used for targeted marketing, catching software
pirates, or who knows what else.

Jonathan Mark	uunet!microsoft!jonm	[not speaking for my employer]