Is this legal?

Published Sun, Jan 6 2008 15:15 | William

Bruce Schneier has a new article on a program that Sears is installing on people's computers. 

Money quote:  "If a kid with a scary hacker name did this sort of thing, he'd be arrested. But this is Sears, so who knows what will happen to them. But what should happen is that the anti-spyware companies should treat this as the malware it is, and not ignore it because it's done by a Fortune 500 company."
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# Data save » Is this legal? said on January 6, 2008 5:22 PM:

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# Lou said on January 8, 2008 7:51 AM:

Sounds similar to what Facebook was accused of...the "Money Quote" was right on..

# Peter said on January 10, 2008 4:23 PM:

Short answer? Yes.

See the Sony rootkit debacle for a prior example of why nothing will happen to Sears about this.

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