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"This application provides access to the DoT CARS system. When logged on to the CARS system, your computer is considered a Federal computer system and is the property of the US Government. Any and all uses of this system and all files on this system may be intercepted, monitored, recorded, copied, audited, inspected, and disclosed to authorized CARS, DoT, and law enforcement personnel, as well as authorized officials of other agencies, both domestic and foreign."
- www.CARS.gov

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In fact, I'd love to see everyone so enraged by this that the whole practice gets outlawed. These kinds of 'disclaimers' where you surrender all your rights when you walk in the proverbial door are criminal.

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
The "hijacking" you refer to isn't any part of the CARS.com website, or anything that YOU sign up for. It's on part of the DEALER area of the program, and it's worded in exactly the same lawyerese boilerplate as every piece of software that you have to press the "ACCEPT" button to use.

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The structure of Linux makes writing a virus very difficult as it requires root access to do anything of significance. For a virus to run it would have to be granted root access with a password request. If you fail to give it root access then the most a virus could do, if anything, is damage your home directory. It is unlikely it could even run again so it would die there in your home directory. Most smart Linux users grasp the power of root access and would question why an unknown program is suddenly requesting root access. (You don’t enter your password for just ANY prompt do you? Only for programs YOU have called up, right?) –

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What is there in this "disclaimer" that's really new or any different from warrantless wiretaps and "fishing-expedition" searches? Do you honestly think that if the big bad government wants to poke around in your computer that they need you to click the "I ACCEPT" button to enable them to do that?

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