Google, Sun, others band to fight spyware, adware

Intriguing ... it will be interesting to see this develop.

 

Interesting bunch that will be involved.
www.benedelman.org

Maybe they will be able to go after the advertisers that paid the botmaster
for hacked machines as well as jailing the botmaster

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29242


con

 

I saw it on Reuters today, they are setting up a web site and asking web users to report people to them, so they can be named and shamed

http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=10962618&src=eDialog/GetContent

 

Strange how google joins the ranks of naming "unethical" companies ,yet paticipates itself (along with others) in "unethical" state censorship......
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4647398.stm
ellison

 

Some would counter that possibly Google's hands are tied