[COMP] Re: Admin: Privacy issues

  • To: computers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 02:51:43 EDT

Hello all, this question is more about an OS than spamming...but I just gotta 
know...

In a message dated 4/13/00 9:37:19 PM Pacific Daylight Time, mark@xxxxxxxxxxx 
writes:

<< There is nothing stopping them from setting up a fraudulent 
 dialup account, implementing some already-tested scripts and 
 doing it from there.  They do it all the time and couldn't 
 care less about getting their accounts cancelled because the 
 account was stolen in the first place.  Easy come, easy go.  
  >>

The phrase used above: "already tested scripts"...

Is a script like a 32 bit batch file?
like a dos batch file is a 16 bit way of running multiple commands from one 
instruction or event, or command?

<<All they care about is using your bandwidth/information 
(and then someone else's) without paying for it.  >>

duh? how can someone use your bandwidth? Do you have to be offline for them 
to do that?
Geez, those are 2 unrelated questions....sorry.
Thanks
David



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