Mesh is a popular file-sharing application that has recently started to bundle a piece of software inside its P2P tool called Marketscore.
Marketscore is a privacy nightmare: What this program does is akin to monitoring each and every possible activity you carry out on your computer. Marketscore in fact routes all of a user’s surfing destinations through its own servers. There it analyzes the data to “create research reports on internet trends and e-commerce activities,” according to Marketscore itself.
Even data entered on secure websites – such as passwords, credit card numbers and bank account numbers, information that is supposed to be viewable only by the sender and the intended recipient – is accessible to Marketscore, as the company has developed a technology that allows it to view encrypted information.
But the most interesting part is that some users don’t seem to be concerned about this, and consider such practices part of what is to be expected by Internet companies that offer free services.
