From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 05:14:22 +0800
To: perry@piermont.com
Subject: Re: Win95 Registration Wizard info
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960118194900.008a53d0@mail.teleport.com>
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At 10:03 AM 1/18/96 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
>Alan Olsen writes:
>> I picked this link up from the Fringewear list.
>[...]
>> The author takes the registration Wizard in Win95 apart and shows exactly
>> what it does and what it looks for.  Some interesting information about the
>> encrypted database of product information it uses.
>
>What, exactly, does this have to do with cypherpunks?

I posted it for two reasons.  

1) There have been alot of rumors spread about what the Registration Wizard
does and does not do to comprimise your privacy.  This dispells many of
those rumors.

2) The program's use of encryption to conceal what products it looks for.

If I was going to post unrelated articles of that site, it would have been
the Win95 dirtly little secrets article and/or the Softram hoax.



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