O’Reilly: What Is Spyware
I think this is ironic:
Notice: It says “Windows” not “Macintosh” on the label.
Have you ever heard of spyware for the Mac?
I think this is ironic:
Notice: It says “Windows” not “Macintosh” on the label.
Have you ever heard of spyware for the Mac?
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I recently announced the upcoming release of Coherent 1.0 and I’ve been very pleased by the positive reception the library has received.Lots of folks have come out of the woodwork to either say they’ve been looking for something like this for ages. I guess there are more fans of the Apple development model than I [...]
As the release of Coherent looms nearer, I’ve been encouraged to start writing some documentation. My first effort is up: Writing a Widget. This tutorial takes you through creating a widget using Coherent starting with raw mark up and ending with a functional (if simple) widget. Thanks to some great feedback (and encouragement) from Neil [...]
I’ve written a little bit about an exciting new feature in the Coherent library: automatic change notifications. In short, this reduces the amount of code you need to write and if your application only needs to support a Class A browser (like Safari 3 or Firefox), you can rely on JavaScript’s support for property getter/setter [...]
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I’m sad to report that I think this isn’t true: Article on Sony’s Root Kit.
For those that are keeping score, that’s 1 for MacOS, and 82,812,378,234,923 for Windows.
[edited link to prevent overflow — jeff]
I didn’t read the full Macintouch report, but did the Sony-installed DRM work the same way on Mac OS X as on Windows? As I understand it on Windows it was basically a root kit. Was this true on Macs? If so, you’re right, but this is the first time this has happened.
And any sensible person refuses EULAs on music CDs.