[Full-disclosure] Re: Re: According to Ivan, the secret ZA phone-homeserver is located at 127.0.0.1 [was Re: Re:Re: ZoneAlarm phones home]

[Ivan .]

nice personal attacks, a great display of your intellect.

>My first post in this thread claimed that Cringely was spreading FUD, and
>had provided no evidence to back up his claim.

No your first post was this

>Without seeing the content of these packets, I don't see how Cringely can
>claim to know whether there's anything spyware or not about it.  There is no
>*evidence* for his claim.  I'm always suspicious of people who claim to have
>observed 'spyware phoning home' but who are then completely unable to give
>any details about the contents or destination of the packets, since it means
>that they are claiming something that they don't actually know at all.

His only claim was that zonealarm "phones home" even when all the
communication options are disabled. I can't find any claim of spyware
as you indicated. His claim of a phone home bug has been vindicated by
Zonelabs/Checkpoint's response to the list and the admission of the
bug.

Like I said before, it's up to the people on the list to decide if
this is a issue for them or not. Not for a arrogant fool like you to
force his opinion onto people.

go ride your high horse over to letters at infoworld.com