You surf the internet. You might download some software now and again. You play a CD on your computer. Have you given away the keys to the kingdom? You made the mistake of using Internet Explorer to surf, the software had embedded spyware and the CD was from SONY. AUGH! Bruce Schneier has a great post on this subject over on his blog.
You own your computer, of course. You bought it. You paid for it. But how much control do you really have over what happens on your machine? Technically you might have bought the hardware and software, but you have less control over what it’s doing behind the scenes.
Using the hacker sense of the term, your computer is “owned” by other people.
Great read. Check it out.
[tags]Bruce Schneier, Weblog, Spyware, Hacker, SONY[/tags]
