LinuxWorld: An Open Letter to a Digital World

“To Anyone Who Will Listen,

“Recently I was reading an article from Wired magazine talking
about the Windows spyware problem [1]. It was unbelievable to me
that people would choose to use programs that they know make all
their personal information available to companies. It turns out
that 80% of Windows users suffer from spyware [2]. I read many
articles like these but always thought that these people have
problems just because they aren’t careful. Maybe they don’t run
anti-virus, they don’t use a firewall, or they browse seedy sites
and download applications for seedy activities. It turns out though
that is not the case…”

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