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Old Mar 7, 2002 | 5:28 pm
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fholt
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I use it , and see no such problems as lisa describes. I just hit mine while reading her message, and see that AA has finally deducted the mileage for my upgrade certs, so hopefully they will arrive soon...

As to safety, according to the author, none of your information gets passed to anywhere other than where it's needed to get your totals (i.e. it just simulates your typing in and cutting and pasting all your totals in). I haven't captured the traffic to verify this, but have no reason to disbelieve.

I have, however, asked (no reply) about the possibility of encrypting the settings file which has all your stuff. That seems crackable if anyone had access - ditto with the constant "program updates". If anyone wanted to steal a bunch of data, he could easily hack the DLL to copy his own servers, and then put out a "program update" so everyone'd have to install it. Again, cryptography here would help - a digitally signed certificate for updates, etc.

Of course, when it comes down to it, I'm sitting here complaining about a utility that I didn't pay for, and use frequently.

Fred
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