Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!tymix!pnelson From: pnelson@tymix.Tymnet.COM (Phil Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia Subject: Re: CDTV Message-ID: <521@tymix.Tymnet.COM> Date: 27 Jun 91 02:13:56 GMT References: <1991Jun20.164413.1050@menudo.uh.edu> <4oiw46w163w@dworkin.Amber.mccc.edu> Sender: usenet@tymix.Tymnet.COM Organization: BT North America (Tymnet) Lines: 35 Nntp-Posting-Host: tymix First, I should say that Prodigy is a customer of BT North America, and that the following in no way represents the official position of BT North America. In article arctngnt@amiganet.chi.il.us (Bowie J Poag) writes: >Prodigy is a pig organization if I ever saw one anyways.. Theyre already in >court for a couple things, one thing among them is their ability to peek into >your hard drive to see what illegal goodies you have for them to make recordds >of. Personally, I have no use for Prodigy, since they do not support the Amiga, as far as I know. That said, I would like to add that Mr. Poag's comment strikes me as ridiculously exaggurated. Certainly it is worth considering the potential for abuse when someone else's software is running on your machine while connected to the telephone network, and I would be very concerned if I had evidence that such software was transferring information from my disk, but I would not assume that someone was looking for "illegal goodies" unless I was paranoid, or had something to hide. A more likely explanation is that the software simply had bugs. I personally find it incredibly unlikely that Prodigy would deliberately create a program for snooping through your hard drive - it's not the kind of thing corporations do, in my experience. For one thing, it shows more imagination and daring than should be expected of an American corporation these days. Also, it is probably illegal, certainly immoral, unlikely to profit anyone, and undignified. -- Phil Nelson @ BT North America Inc. [ames|pyramid]!oliveb!tymix!pnelson Let a man meet a she-bear robbed of her cubs, rather than a fool in his folly. Proverbs 17:12