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Monday, September 11, 2006

Stopbadware.org conflict of interest?

Bill P (creator of Winpatrol) was recently doing some digging on a company called IAC (creator of FunWeb products, SmileyCentral and a bunch of other stuff) and he realised that...

.....yes, it's long-quote time....

At the top of its board listing is William H. Berkman. His profile says, "Mr. Berkman's family established the Berkman Center For Internet & Society at Harvard Law School." If the Berkman Center sounds familiar it's because they led the initiative behind StopBadware.org.
Last month StopBadware.org declared one of IAC's programs called Zinky to be Badware (Click here). Now they say "Zwinky is not badware, although it does engage in behaviors that users should be aware of", (Click here for more info) You decide for yourself if this is a conflict of interest.

It's since been mentioned in the StopBadware discussion group thing here - should be interesting, so keep an eye on it.

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