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Originally Posted by Alisa
So if an application you thought was trustworthy started calling sending your private data, it would get through. That is the point I'm trying to make here. We choose to allow applications access to our networks because we have some amount of confidence in the companies behind them. In the case of something which installs a rootkit, like Sony did on some of their media disks a few years ago, the firewall is irrelevant. The rootkit runs at the highest level of permissions and hides its presence from you.
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True but there are damned few apps I trust, none of which include commercial sites. Detecting most rookits is not that difficult (getting rid of them is another story). There is always a certain amount of risk involved when using the internet but proper protection can reduce it to an acceptable level. E-book readers, on the other hand, have NO protection whatsoever. It's open season with no limits on anything on them if you have WiFi and/or 3G.