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What about businesses suing spyware companies? (none / 0) (#2)
by Anonymous User on Mon May 03, 2004 at 10:25:25 AM PDT

Think about it... If a company does a decent job of locking down a workstation (not too tough to do with Win2K/XP clients), and the users are clearly informed about not installing apps, then any spyware really wouldn't be installed by the user and would probably need to take advantage of security holes to work. A company could then raise flags for certain IPs/domains and trace back to where it was coming from. Then a big company (i.e. a bank) can sue the spyware companies out of existence... Hell, their legal departments could probably make such sneakware "agreements" their employees "sign" be null & void, saying that the person doesn't speak for the company & can't enter into contracts involving company property. Thus the spyware was installed on a company PC without permission, thus entering the company into a disallowed "agreement", thus costing the company revenue that can be recovered...


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