Comments on: Police blotter: Porn-dialing firm loses appeal
A company with a downloadable dial-for-porn program that charged $3.99 a minute for calls to Madagascar loses appeal.
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- by davidman2010 March 31, 2006 3:22 PM PST
- I'll bet all those idiots who got billed were using IE, if they were using Firefox that wouldn't have happened.
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- Sigh, another wanna-be techno guru.
- by kamwmail-cnet1 March 31, 2006 8:39 PM PST
- What happened? Reading is NOT fundamental?
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- by Jackson Cracker March 31, 2006 11:19 PM PST
- The high phone charges were due to the method used for the
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(3 Comments)These porno-dial programs are download and installed voluntarily by the ***** idiots. Firefox or IE would not have helped nor hindered in anyway.
Internet connection. It had nothing to do with what browser
someone was using.
Of course, the dialer program itself was probably Windows-only,
so it wouldn't affect users with advanced operating systems.