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This is not so simple.

This is not so simple.

Posted Nov 10, 2011 17:42 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Solution is simple... by job
Parent article: Firefox 8 released

You would need to obfuscate keys by hand at random positions for each release for this scheme to slow down a third party installer noticeably.

Nope. We are talking crapware here, not malware. You only need to slow down it enough to trigger ยง 1201. After that point you don't have an example of crapware. It's clearly illegal malware and should be treated as such: it will be added to virus databases, etc.


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This is not so simple.

Posted Nov 14, 2011 20:28 UTC (Mon) by job (guest, #670) [Link]

I see. I would never have thought that I would find EUCD/DMCA on my side some day, but what do you know...

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