Re: [vox] Printouts for WEF

[Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.oMAPSrg>]

begin Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil@dcn.davis.ca.us> 
> On Thu, 2 May 2002, nbs wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 02:18:09PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:

jeff, excellent post.  that was interesting!

> > But I'm not sure that it's even FILES it's uploading.  It's data.
> > 
> > But... whatever... Sounds intrusive. ;)
> 
> It is sending your queries to MS.  If you are searching for pr0n, MS will
> know.  They may or may not have enough information in the collected data
> to identify you personally, but combined with other information it could
> be damning if you were searching for explosives howtos shortly before
> someone bombed the Capitol. ;)
 
i'm certain that the article said that, along with the search query it
also sent your IP address!

pete
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