From a privacy standpoint, Microsoft’s instant messaging service provides much information about your online habits such as when and how long you are online (When you sign onto msn instant messenger), the type of email you receive, where your email is sent from, your name, address, and any other information you provde to them. I wonder which affiliate, private parties, partners, and other businesses related to Microsoft have access to this information. I also wonder what their privacy policies are.

The only privacy policy I trust is one that says, “We throw away all information related to surfing or purchases over 2 months of age, and we do not disclose ANY information about those who use our website to anybody outside of our company (unless forced to do so by search warrant).” Any exceptions as to information sharing to outside parties should be looked at with great suspicion.

Using peer to peer to transmit website content is one way of getting around the censorship. Another way is freewan!