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I don't think anyone should have their web browsing, email and trading intellectual
property all on one computer. You can heed all the tools available to
protect yourself, but it's like going upstream without a
paddle. Computer snooping is just too tempting among a growing number
of very smart people who have fallen victim by their lower natures.
If you can't use a dedicated non-networked computer only attached to a
satellite datafeed for your intellectual property, then
there will always be a potential risk for piracy.
I don't want to believe that any software developer, who wants to make
a market on their software, will add snooping capabilities to their
software. They will have checks and balances in place to keep rouge
software developer employees from succeeding. However, if there is something going on, it may not matter in
terms of your success. If it does matter, an army of legal
forensic software engineers will eventually catch up on this matter and uncover a
mountain of evidence.
So if you must have your intellectual property on a computer attached
to the internet, you'll have to trust your trading software, with the
confidence that eventually justice will be brought to the snoopers. You
could always hire a forensic network/software engineer yourself, of
course.
For now, and at the very least, get a firewall/VPN hardware appliance and have your trading stuff on one
computer and your web browsing/email on another.
On Tuesday, December 03, 2002 Bob Wrote:
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B> For some time I have been using an excellent free program called
B> RegistryProt. It runs in the background and alerts you if a program is
B> trying to write to your registry and asks for your permission to allow
B> it. This alone protects you against many unwanted downloaded programs,
B> viruses and trojans since most will want access to the registry. You can
B> read more at:
B> http://www.diamondcs.com.au/web/htm/regprot.htm
B> No connection etc., just a satisfied user
B> Bob
B> ----- Original Message -----
B> From: "countachl" <countachl@xxxxxxxxx>
B> To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
B> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 11:12 AM
B> Subject: Re: TradeStation Securities
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Subject: Re: TradeStation Securities
>> > Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:17:34 -0500
>> > From: Leslie Walko <l.walko@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > To: rfurse@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > CC: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
>> >
>> > Russ:
>> >
>> > There is an issue that you have not considered.
>> > SECURITY !
>> >
>> > With TS, your install the software in client-server mode.
>> > You have to leave various ports open for the software to
>> > work. Your code is in EL. (Secured or not is irrelevant.)
>> > What is there to prevent a rouge employee from installing a
>> > Trojan Horse on your machine?
>> > Nothing!
>>
>> Excellent Point ! Yesterday I discovered two unwelcome programs
>> on my system - RADMIN (a retail remote-control program) and mIRC
>> (Internet Relay Chat). I think the remote program was there only one
>> day, since it caused an error message when booting. IRC was there
>> longer - I noticed its window during boot, but didn't pursue it
B> immediately.
>>
>> So if you notice anything odd happening with your system, investigate
B> it
>> IMMEDIATELY ! !
>>
>> donc
>>
>>
>>
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