[10821] in bugtraq
Old Software (Was: Re: big brother in your cc)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec Muffett)
Mon Jun 14 17:19:22 1999
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 20:00:05 +0100
Reply-To: Alec Muffett <alecm@COYOTE.UK.SUN.COM>
From: Alec Muffett <alecm@COYOTE.UK.SUN.COM>
X-To: Darren Reed <avalon@COOMBS.ANU.EDU.AU>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:17:12 +1000."
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[Aleph - please expedite posting this if possible. Love'n'Hugs.]
>Whilst this isn't strictly speaking a security bug, it borders on
>Sun acting in a very "big brother" manner which is frightening!
Hi Guys,
The story I am told, is:
| This is VERY OLD NEWS. This info was collected as part of the
| Workshop 5.0 Early Access and Developer Release programs. It is
| *not*, I repeat, NOT turned on in the FCS release of the product.
| When customers downloaded the Early Access and Developer Release
| products off the web they where told this info was being collected via
| the FAQ and via the web security disclosure statment on the web
| site. In addition, the FAQ told them how to turn it off if they felt
| that it was data they did no want to devulge.
|
| The Early Access and Developer Release web sites are long since
| defunct since the WS 5.0 product FCS in 2/2/99. It used to be located
| at http://access1.sun.com/workshop5.0ea.
...so, can anyone submit an instance of this happening with the non
early-access software?
- alec
