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A lawsuit filed in federal court last week alleges that a group of well-known Web sites broke the law by secretly tracking the Web movements of their users, including children.

…bSiKgesit4Q Like this Reply to this comment 2 people like this comment by sparrowhyperion August 15, 2010 7:33 AM PDT Sounds semi-useful but it doesn’t address the tracking issue. Like this
by drfillgood August 15, 2010 2:15 PM PDT It’s not clear how this software works exactly. How is it encrypted/decrypted, how strong is the encryption? If it’s just using a keyword encryption - I’d guess that’s one of the weak spots. How do you widely distribute the keyword to your friends/family/co-workers/clients without having it fall in the hands of others? It might be possible to safely pass keywords to select friends, but for widely distributed messages such as on Twitter or Facebook, how would you pull that off? Keywords are also prone to dictionary attacks, phishing, and brute force attacks, so it’s useless against an even moderately determined hacker. What I’d really like to see is more public key encryption of emails and messaging services, and it’s integration in free webmail services. Of course you’re…

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In a staggering feat of twisted logic, Coca-Cola is defending the lawsuit by asserting that “no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage.” does it mean that it’s okay for a corporation to lie about its products, as long as they can then turn around and claim that no one actually believes their lies?

…Actually, it is a clever argument for the following reason. Advertising is not designed to appeal to the reason but to the emotions and subconscious motivations. Any advertising professional, and in particular psychologists who research such things, can explain the theories and techniques behind mass persuasion in great scientific, and I emphasize scientific, detail. (You want expert witnesses? I’ll give you expert witnesses.) In other words, their advertising is patently not designed to appeal to the reasonable person, or at least, to the rational part of the mind, A reasonable person, on the other hand, would rationally investigate the claims of such advertisement and not take them seriously. A reasonable person indeed would have the RESPONSIBILITY to do so. Therefore, Coca Coal is NOT responsible for the of those who, of their own free will, actually respond to their advertising. Maybe there is something a bit unethical about all this, but certainly the compny has no liability for the free choices made by…

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The Dark Side of Vitaminwater

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