Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Les Cargill Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.python,comp.mobile.android,comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?! Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 04:09:32 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <519af$565d03d9$d47876e2$19871@news.ziggo.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 10:02:12 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="0d6067635a6631d8f602a011f31e5f3a"; logging-data="15832"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19xIE/ZDMHwv1D0fhBhyb1qh2N83ezDCB4=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0 SeaMonkey/2.39 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:UsjHG5mnWXF4ynankbY24drtJ0A= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:77600 comp.lang.c++:39203 comp.lang.python:99863 comp.mobile.android:24269 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:691 Juha Nieminen wrote: > In comp.lang.c++ Steve Hayes wrote: >> You download things FROM a computer, you upload them TO a computer. > > It's a matter of perspective. If a hacker breaks into your computer and > starts a download from somewhere else into your computer, isn't the hacker > "downloading" things to your computer? > > --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news@netfront.net --- > Down is towards an end node; up is towards the backbone. Servers live closer to the backbone. Usually. Or rather did when the nomenclature was forged. -- Les Cargill