Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!tellab5!laidbak!amiganet!arctngnt From: arctngnt@amiganet.chi.il.us (Bowie J Poag) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia Subject: Re: CDTV Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 91 20:03:43 GMT References: <521@tymix.Tymnet.COM> Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems Lines: 59 In article <521@tymix.Tymnet.COM>, pnelson@tymix.Tymnet.COM (Phil Nelson) writes: >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 (Bowi >e 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 Ok. Mind explaining to me why theyre in court in the first place, then? From what rumors ive heard (They wont even talk about it on Prodigy...gee - wonder why!) that software houses were paying prodigy to snoop hard drives, and collect names. Just a rumor though. Prodigy, you understand, is a service for computer illeterates. Mr. Joe Average has no idea that they snoop. And thats taking advantage of their customers. skrew em. "Think John Hinkley would be impressed if Reagan shot Jodie Foster?" - Me =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Nothin like a good single-tasking, single-processor based beep-box like an IBM to liven things up 'round the office! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Direct all bomb threats and assorted hate-mail to arctngnt@amiganet.chi.il.us