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RE: ActiveX - Arrogance rules (fwd)



> 
> Only one person has to recognize that the ActiveX control is performing
> nefarious background activities to blow the whistle -- and that is one
> gigantic whistle.  I do not have to provide an appeal to ethics to show
> that this simply will not happen with large companies.  Self interest is
> enough.  Do you have any idea what kind of publicity machine would come
> down on a company that did this?
> 
>  

This begs another twist on the old denial-of-service attack. Someone blows the
whistle on an obscure ActiveX control from a competitor, and lo and behold,
people start blocking everything from that site