[109399] in Cypherpunks
Re: A-M$: m$ tracking visitors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (marek jedlinski)
Mon Mar 22 22:24:57 1999
From: eristic@lodz.pdi.net (marek jedlinski)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 03:03:16 GMT
Reply-To: eristic@lodz.pdi.net (marek jedlinski)
Osama Bin Laden forwarded:
>http://www.wired.com/news/print_version/technology/story/18405.html?wnpg=all
> Peter Siering, senior editor of software development for the magazine,
> observed registration software for Windows 98 sent numerical
> identifiers to Microsoft.com, failing to inform the user it was doing
> so.
>
> The transmission of the identifier -- if matched in a database to
> personal name and contact information collected during the
> registration process -- would allow Microsoft to identify registered
> Windows users' visits to its Web site.
MS were supposed to provide a utility to strip the GUID from
documents, and did they?
I wrote an app (Win95) that does just that: scans Word and Excel
documents and modifies the GUID information: fills it with zeros,
random hex values, or use your imagination. Process many files at
once, with backup and log. It's free, distributed under GPL or
Artistic license (your choice), comes with a help file and source code
(Delphi 3). If anyone wants it, it's there.
http://www.lodz.pdi.net/~eristic/free/guidclean.html
.marek jedlinski
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