[mdlug] Lou Novak asked us to send you this post from Engadget

[Dave Arbogast]

Bob Dion wrote:

>Dave Arbogast wrote:
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>>Bob Dion wrote:
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>>>Jeff Hanson wrote:
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>>>>On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:00 PM,  <lnovak1 at ford.com> wrote:
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>>>>>                [4]Microsoft speculates on ad-supported Sync
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>>>>I can see the potential in it.  The ECU could signal Sync that the
>>>>engine efficiency is lower than normal.  Sync could then suggest
>>>>solutions the driver can select from like "Gummout Anti-Virus for
>>>>ECUs".
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>>>and here's an interesting article that showed up in the free press a 
>>>couple weeks ago. Looks like MS up to their old tricks again, make 
>>>someone else's system malfunction so they can replace it with their own.
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>>>Sync, navigation a bad match
>>>Together they make iPod play frustrating
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>>>http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080217/COL14/802170637/
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>>>BD
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>>Notice the FreePress slurping a little info from you? Twice that page 
>>attempts to send data back a couple of times?
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>>http://gcirm.dmp.gcion.com/RealMedia/ads/
>>http://js.revsci.net/gateway/gw.js?csid=J06575
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>>-dave
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>How did you detect this?
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>I have ad blocker on so I didn't see the ads and I don't except cookies 
>from third party servers.
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>BD
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my browser (Mozilla/5.0) does not have the security warnings turned off. 
So when I got 2 prompts that I was about to send unencrypted 
information, when all I did was load the link you sent us, I took notice 
and poked around the source for the domain I watched loading when it 
attempted to send back information to a host other than what I requested.

-dave