O’Reilly: What Is Spyware

23 Nov 2005

I think this is ironic:

O'Reilly features an article about spyware

Notice: It says “Windows” not “Macintosh” on the label.

Have you ever heard of spyware for the Mac?

2 Comments

  1. cbd
    Posted 1 Dec 2005 at 3:06 pm | Permalink

    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]

  2. Jeff Watkins
    Posted 1 Dec 2005 at 10:25 pm | Permalink

    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.