Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Saturday afternoon paranoia

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Author: Dr A. J. Trickett
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Saturday afternoon paranoia

> One [1] suggests that USB hardware can be used as a Trojan horse to
> steal your data.


It's possible. Though there are probably easier ways to steal data.

> And the other [2] claims that Google biasses its search results in
> favour of its own sites. For example Google's YouTube gets higher
> ranking than competitor PhotoBucket.


That wouldn't surprise me, neither would bing favouring Microsoft products and
services....

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Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK

With ... the fact that Linux has become so easy to install that
certain species of bacteria are now being hired by MIS departments,
what was once the domain of rigorously trained, highly specialised
professionals has devolved into the Dark Land of the Monkeys.
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