News around the web: Is your browser spying on you?

[Erik]

Is your browser spying on you? @ The Week
Five Best Windows 7 Tweaking Applications @ lifehacker
iPhone vs. iPad: 20 games compared @ CNet
Uncle Sam Wants You To Fight Hackers @ BusinessWeek
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Storage
Corsair Padlock 2 Review @ CCEReviews
QNAP TS-259 Pro Turbo NAS Review @ DragonSteelMods
Addonics NAS2XU2 NAS 2.0 Adapter Review @ Tweaknews

Video
XFX Radeon 5830 Review @ OCC
MSI 5830 Twin Frozr II 1GB Review @ PureOverclock
Sapphire HD 5870 2GB Toxic Edition Review @ Hardware Canucks

Peripherals
Steel Series 4HD @ LanOC Reviews
Arctic Cooling Arctic Sound E352 earphones review @ APH Networks

Misc.
Pogoplug: An Interesting, Linux-Friendly NAS @ Phoronix
Win an Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition Gaming PC! @ Techgage

Displays
21.5″ Samsung SyncMaster 2233SW LCD Monitor @ iGadget Life

Cooling
Notebook Coolers Roundup @ HardwareHeaven

Enclosures
ICY DOCK MB672 Internal 3.5-inch HDD Enclosure Review @ ThinkComputers.org

Cases
In Win Allure @ techPowerUp
Fractal Design R2 Review @ XSReviews
Antec P193 Mid Tower ATX Case Review @ Legit Reviews

Tablets
Apple iPad @ TechRadar

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[tonylukac]

If you have anti-phishing activated in IE, microsoft knows EVERY url you visit to compare them to phishing web sites. Microsoft is full of bear crap.

 

[tonylukac]

Your media player is spying on you too. In the case of windows media player, when you are playing an mp3, the get album art (cddb) feature sends your ip address and the name of the mp3 to microsoft, WHETHER YOU HAVE CDDB ENABLED OR NOT. This is one way the RIAA finds illegal downloaders; thru microsoft. One irony is that since microsoft is always in bed with lawyers, they often get sued themselves as in the microsoft office injunction case. Twist of fate.

 

[matrix86]

In reply to the tweaking applications, neither God Mode nor Rainmeter are actual tweaking tools, but more of "aids for tweaking tools." God Mode creates a shortcut to all the built in customizing features of Windows, and Rainmeter is a monitor that in a way helps to tell you if you're doing too much (meaning all the tweaks are bogging down your resources).

So while it is good that they were mentioned because they are helpful, it's not right to call them tweaking tools (or Applications as the article calls them).