Hey Everyone I have replies to the questions of our Fire Fox Tool spying on everyone. Please read.
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I found your blog post a bit painful to read... http://sphinn.com/story/5007 applies. Sorry.
Thanks for this, Chris and the 97th Floor team. To the people who emailed myself and Rand, asking us to "amend", "fix" or "revoke" our blog entry about the tool: this is why we waited for the supposed perpetrators to respond to claims before publicizing their "crimes." I believe that too many people who use the internet as their primary business tool are too quick to hit "compose entry" when they think they’ve come across a problem. Some people thought 97th Floor were spying on those who were using their tool, and instead of sending a quick email to the company ("Hey Chris, what’s up with this data collection rumor?"), they jumped to their blogs.
It is accepted practice in most of the computer security industry that the problem finder lets the originating company know about the problem and then waits a certain amount of time before wider disclosure. You see this most often in announcements about various bugs in Microsoft products, and in the web browsers and other products from other companies.
Thanks for trusting us, we had no idea that the info could be tweaked for evil use. Everything is perfect and I have already had two emails of people that have hit the digg homepage for the first time, thanks to the tool.
I thank everyone as well trusting us. Getting the emails that we have got from people telling us how they have used it to hit the homepage, (which is the point of digging stories, and why people use digg right?) has been worth going through all this spying nonsense! We created the tool to help Social Media Marketers, and so far it seems to be doing just that!