A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME?
This article makes a comparison between the computer software named research ware with that of spyware. It states that researchware is downloaded like spyware, it operates like spyware silently monitoring every move the user makes online; and it sends that information back to the program's creator,...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 48; no. 7; p. 10 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Jul2005
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