{"id":8346,"date":"2017-07-14T04:31:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T12:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/07\/14\/news-2120\/"},"modified":"2017-07-14T04:31:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T12:31:27","slug":"news-2120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/07\/14\/news-2120\/","title":{"rendered":"EULA gotchas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Sarah Pike| Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 11:56:04 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Can I interest you in a nice, long, legally binding document? It&#8217;ll only take a few hours and maybe a law degree. No? You&#8217;re not alone.<\/p>\n<p>Despite many years of experience, humorous stories (ha ha, you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/speaking-of-science\/wp\/2014\/09\/29\/londoners-accidentally-pay-for-free-wi-fi-with-a-firstborn-because-no-one-reads-anymore\/\">signed away your baby<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/apples-mind-bogglingly-greedy-and-evil-license-agreement\/\">dire warnings<\/a>, no one reads EULAs \u2014 that&#8217;s end-user license agreements, those things you have to sign electronically before installing software, signing up for online services, or connecting to a free Wi-Fi hotspot. They are bills of sale that outline what you pay and what you get in return.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/d1srlirzdlmpew.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2017\/07\/14125140\/eula-gotchas-featured.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d1srlirzdlmpew.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2017\/07\/14125140\/eula-gotchas-featured-1024x673.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"673\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11338\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t blame people for not scanning EULAs carefully. They&#8217;re boring and usually very long. A few years ago, <em>Time<\/em> magazine estimated thoroughly reading those pesky agreements would take about <a href=\"http:\/\/techland.time.com\/2012\/03\/06\/youd-need-76-work-days-to-read-all-your-privacy-policies-each-year\/\">76 work days per year<\/a>. But at the same time, we can&#8217;t ignore the fact that EULAs are legally binding. If you&#8217;re not sure what they say, maybe you shouldn&#8217;t sign them.<\/p>\n<p>A few suggestions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If the agreement is short, at least skim it;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Use a EULA analyzing tool such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brightfort.com\/eulalyzer.html\">EULAlyzer<\/a>;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t use the service if you don&#8217;t have to.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ultimately, we all know there&#8217;s no such thing as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/smart-wifi-vkontakte-credentials\/8279\/\">free lunch<\/a>, but many of us live in hope. Still, pay we must \u2014 so let&#8217;s at least know the price.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/eula-gotchas\/17709\/\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/blog.kaspersky.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Sarah Pike| Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 11:56:04 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What would you do for a hotspot?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10425,10378],"tags":[10434,5897,10428,13028],"class_list":["post-8346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kaspersky","category-security","tag-advice","tag-privacy","tag-tips","tag-user-agreements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}