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It appears that Microsoft has slipped a new clause into the Product Use Rights (PUR) document for Windows XP while their customers weren't looking. I wonder how corporate system administrators will feel about having a 'co-admin' with full authorization to modify their systems at will. Worse, some organizations have legislative privacy requirements that could be violated if their systems were to become subject to this PUR. This is yet another good reason to avoid Windows XP.
"The reader was stunned. "By changing that term in the PUR, Microsoft has found a creative way to obtain authorization from users to access their workstations at will," he said. "How many customers are going to review this PDF file and realize they've given Microsoft this right? And all the risk for the security and privacy violations due to this are neatly put on the customer's shoulders, not Microsoft's.""
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| | read more | mail this link | score:6971 | -Ray, February 11, 2002 (Updated: September 20, 2004) |
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