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Re: Death to Plaxo
by Chris Peterson
Death to Plaxo I agree! Plaxo, despite all they say, is effectively spyware and while the service is a great concept, I strongly warn against its use. Their software mined from my computer, and distributed to literally dozens of other computers, very private security information that was not in any way connected to my address book or date book, but instead located elsewhere within my Palm and Outlook based organizer setup. This information included how to disable our home security system! Plaxo can say all they want, but their security 'glitches' are far more risky than the benefits justify in using this software. What's worse, I never authorized ANY sync of my data with Plaxo, I merely set up an account because of an organization I work with who uses Plaxo. When I installed and sync'ed Outlook to my Palm PDA, Plaxo's software 'self-authorized' that sync, which I had intentionally NOT done. To illustrate how much Plaxo really cares (none) their so-called head of security/privacy issues "Mac" refused to even look into the situation except for a few feel good emails back and forth to me before he stopped responding when I asked him to really look into this and reverse the data they sent out by resending blank data somehow. Plaxo has no interest in doing anything other than covering this up - including having a blog on their own website that they edit or refuse to post unless they like it...some blog. However, they are great PR hype'rs, since Stacy Martin seems to catch and counter all negative (read: honest) blogs I can find on the web about this, pretty much the same brush off I got from Mac when I brought this egregious breach of privacy to their attention. DO NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE IF THERE IS ANYTHING PRIVATE OR SECURE ON YOUR COMPUTER.
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