{"id":939,"date":"2005-01-14T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2005-01-14T00:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=939"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:01:42","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T00:01:42","slug":"investors_suppo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=939","title":{"rendered":"Investors supporting spyware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=tbn:I-RrRnwR-XwJ:iatservices.missouri.edu\/images\/techknowledge\/spyware.jpg\"><br \/>\nBen Edelman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benedelman.org\/spyware\/investors\/\">page<\/a> is a great example of the internet&#8217;s enormous &#8220;power to the people&#8221; potential.  Edelman lists the firms producing spyware along with their investors.   Check it out.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spyware\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Strictly defined, spyware consists of computer software that gathers and reports information about a computer user without the user&#8217;s knowledge or consent. More broadly, the term spyware can refer to a wide range of related malware products which fall outside the strict definition of spyware. These products perform many different functions, including the delivery of unrequested advertising (pop-up ads in particular), harvesting private information, re-routing page requests to illegally claim commercial site referral fees, and installing stealth phone dialers.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Clusty fat link: <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?query=spyware\">spyware<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Edelman&#8217;s page is a great example of the internet&#8217;s enormous &#8220;power to the people&#8221; potential. Edelman lists the firms producing spyware along with their investors. Check it out. Wikipedia: Strictly defined, spyware consists of computer software that gathers and reports information about a computer user without the user&#8217;s knowledge or consent. More broadly, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}