In the past, I wrote about Microsoft’s “Asimov” and how it appeared to be running on my Windows 7 machine. I was not participating in the Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program but a KB was loaded and producing errors related to that program. I describe such applications as Privacy Invading Technology (PIT).

Is there a reasonable expectation of privacy on the Internet? A senior US district judge recently stated the technically obvious, but it may come as a shock to many. The FBI seized control of Playpen, a dark net website dedicated to child porn distribution (yes disgusting and good for the FBI). In building their case, the FBI utilized something known as “network investigative technique” (NIT) – which also included grabbing source IP addresses out of the TOR network.

I was a member of MP3.com back in the day and even had a song make it into the top 10 of its genre. Also at that time, Napster was in a huge legal battle and rightfully so because it literally was breaking copyright laws by sharing music that was not properly purchased. MP3.com also had an idea at the time, that didn’t break any laws, yet because of the confusion between what it was doing, the limited technical prowess of the legal system and the conflation with Napster