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Tuesday, January 4, 2005

Not Funny: Windows DRM Installs RIAA Spyware on Your PC The forces of the dark side are still at it. There's more info on the latest invasion of the computer snatchers, this one has the following delightful solution: "Don't use Windows. Security vulnerabilities of this type tend to be far, far less common in Linux, and where they are discovered, they are corrected in hours, not weeks." Of course it would never dawn on so many of these otherwise intelligent geeks that Mac OSX is also a UNIX - based system, a real UNIX with all the same benefits - plus it looks a hell of a lot better, is much easier to operate and runs on beautiful machines. goto: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tka/2005/01/03#a42 7:38:19 AM    comment []