[rumori] Re: your telly is spying on you


From: Colin Hinz (asfiATeol.ca)
Date: Sat Apr 27 2002 - 10:09:35 PDT


On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Steev Hise wrote:

> I don't want my computer or my walkman or my TV sending any
> information to anything anywhere, for any reason, unless i tell
> it to.
>
> smh

Better not get a TIVO box, then -- apparently they spy on your viewing
preferences. There's a website somewhere describing on how a TIVO can
be hacked so it uses only an anonymous or generic user ID number.

- Colin Hinz
  Toronto, Canada

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