[Am-info] Microsoft Admits XP Media Player Spies on Users

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.02.23 04:45 PM, Mitch Stone typed: ============

>>     I don't see any way Microsoft could use WMP Mac to spy on customers
>> the same way it does with the Windows version. Especially when Macs won't
>> use it to play CDs or DVD.
>
>I don't know of any technical reason why spyware could not be implemented 
>on the Mac. Why would a Windows user would use WMP to play CDs an DVDs? 
>Surely, other choices exist.

   WMP is default for CDs and DVD on Windows, while mac OS uses Apple's 
software by default. And Mac OS doesn't provide the same fertile ground 
for spying that Windows and its IE integration does.



======== Paul Rickard, Editor of The Microsoft Boycott Campaign =======
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