[BC] Automation systems

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

Even Win-2000/professional, when used with current service
packs, will call home periodically if It finds itself on the Internet.
Nowhere in its documentation is even a hint that it does this.
Even something as "harmless" as reporting the license number
and name of the computer has absolutely frightening consequences
if that capability is misused --which it will be, since it exists.

No operating system, to which the name Microsoft is attached,
should be used for anything that requires security and
professional integrity. It is merely a toy and should not be taken
seriously. Learn Linux/Unix and be secure in the knowledge
that only what you have installed, enabled, and know about,
is running.

If (when) the government wants to break into your computer
they will have to take physical possession. It can't be done
over the Internet. Even then, they will find only what you
have put on the computer, not something that some
unknown party has filled your hard disk with.


--
Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
Read about my book
http://www.LymanSchool.org


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tom <Radiofreetom at gmail.com>
> Zara is good; but it wants to hog any internet connection you allow it 
> (stream connections, etc.).  SPL easily outperforms it.  For one, ZARA 
> has no way to protect against playing same artist back-to-back; SPL does 
> (an issue for stations that have a stream - another benefit of DMCA).  I 
> also didn't see any way to interface ZARA with a sat receiver - Studio 
> does - in both directions - via the LPT port.
> 
> As to Win2K being obsolete...
> 
> Tell it to the US Navy.  They will NOT allow XP or <shudder> Vista 
> aboard ship.  They even frown on it in the crews' personal machines.  
> Too many phone-home-to-Redmond issues, for one.
> 
> Tom Spencer
> PG-18-25453 (nee' P1-18-48841)
> http://radioxtz.com/
> Part 15 transmitters on AM 640 and FM 100.1
>