Content originally posted in LPCWare by Rob65 on Mon Feb 13 11:44:30 MST 2012
Pong went back to the future, all the way back to 1972 to meet Allan Alcorn :D
If you would not like to be spied upon, the best thing I can recommend is to disconnect your computer from the network, run it solely on your own power source (someone could identify what you are doing by reading a power surge profile) and hide in a location that absolutely does not allow any signals to be transmitted to someone spying you with an RF sniffer :eek:
Actually it is not that hard to see what the LPCXpresso tools send to code-rec-tech.com at all. I'd be happy to show you, but then I would also show you my IP number and some more information about my system :p and I don't like that.
I think it's OK to send the information to code-red-tech.com (it is actually just checking the license) but you are right when you do not want to share too much information about your computer (or your IP location) on the internet.
You are using the internet, you are even using the LPCXpresso forum. Lot's of website (knowledgebase.nxp.com is no exception on this rule) communicate cookies with your PC. These cookies contain information about your username, the time since your last visit, maybe even other information like the last visited page at the site and much more.
I am sometimes scared about all these cookies (most cookies are delicacies for the websites I am visiting but not for me).
I would not bother too much about this 'ping' in LPCXpresso. If you block this, don't blame Code Red or us when things suddenly stop working...
Regards,
Rob
P.s: do you have any idea what kind of information Google, Ebay and PayPal are collecting about you. Just look at their policies and then get scared :eek:
