AOL does it again

[Cleo]

Doesn't AOL own ICQ now

[Kinky]

Originally Posted by Cleo

Doesn't AOL own ICQ now

NO SHIT? that is really scary... I never use AIM or ICQ anymore, but I do use an aol e-mail addy which I think I need to stop using but I have used it for so long that it is hard to switch everything to a new addy

Originally Posted by Greenguy

Oh yeah - I knew they kept them too - the kids have had our family account suspended a couple of time for swearing & whatnot - so then I have to call AOL & ask them to send over the logs so I can bitch at them - little foul mouthed teenagers

do you have the parental settings set real high? that is good for when you have kids, but kinda freaky knowing that every conversation you have over the AIM system is being recorded and listened to

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by kinky

...do you have the parental settings set real high? that is good for when you have kids, but kinda freaky knowing that every conversation you have over the AIM system is being recorded and listened to

Oddly enough, that is another little bitch of mine with AOL - the kids are smart & most parents are dumb, so once I set the Parental Controls on their accounts, they figured out that could bug their friends for their un/pw's & log on under account that have no parental controls. I've asked AOL if there is a way to disable the "guest" option & they said now

So now they just burn their friend's accounts & I assume swear a lot

[Kinky]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

Oddly enough, that is another little bitch of mine with AOL - the kids are smart & most parents are dumb, so once I set the Parental Controls on their accounts, they figured out that could bug their friends for their un/pw's & log on under account that have no parental controls. I've asked AOL if there is a way to disable the "guest" option & they said now

So now they just burn their friend's accounts & I assume swear a lot

so they log on with unprotected accounts and AOL still suspends your accounts? I'm never sending another message thru aol again... that is just plain spooky... talk about having a very big brother watching over your shoulder... and how come AOL can do that, but we can't catch terrorists via the internet??

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by kinky

so they log on with unprotected accounts and AOL still suspends your accounts?...

No - LOL - Once the kids realized that if they logged on under their friends usernames, they could go places they couldn't on their own screen names. This pet peeve I have with AOL has nothing to do with them getting our account suspended because of their cussing

[Kinky]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

No - LOL - Once the kids realized that if they logged on under their friends usernames, they could go places they couldn't on their own screen names. This pet peeve I have with AOL has nothing to do with them getting our account suspended because of their cussing

oh OK.... but I'm still not sending IMs thru AOL anymore

[MeatPounder]

Originally Posted by kinky

do you have the parental settings set real high? that is good for when you have kids, but kinda freaky knowing that every conversation you have over the AIM system is being recorded and listened to

LOL, not to scare you even more...but every single website you go to, every single chat...every single bit of data that goes through your modem or nic is recorded somewheres, and has been for years.
No matter who your isp is.
Of course with the overwhelming amount of data being transferred every second on the net, actually identifying that data is damn near impossible...but not impossible.
Big Brother is watching!

[Head Boy]

Originally Posted by Cleo

Doesn't AOL own ICQ now

They have done for a few years now, and that's why I stopped using it. The ICQ installation also makes a few changes to your security settings - they used to add aol sites to the trusted zone, but there was a bit of a fuss about that, so I don't know if they still do that openly.