TSR: IN UR COMPUTER, VIRUSIN' UR FILES!

[justso]

I wrote my reply at 4.00am this morning when I woke briefly.  It wasn't until I read it now that I find it pretty odd that johan jumped on that question,  after everything that has been said in this thread, then totally failed to answer it in any way.

[SoggyFox]

But to be fair, if all its doing is pulling update info, well, simpe does that too, iirc.

Not quite, though: SimPE pulls ONLY the information you tell it to pull, WHEN you tell it to do so. This can be verified by examining SimPE's code. SimPE does NOT request extraneous information as cover for a steganographically concealled transmission to the mothership, and does NOT install strange DLLs into the system to maintain this linkup. SimPE also does not have a known history of consistently abusing personal information.

Well, notice I said -if-.  I know I never told it to tell me there were updates, but as was said before, there is no reason to distrust SimPE, while there is -no- reason to trust this TSR tool.  Hell, lots of reasons to actively distrust it.  I don't trust it, and I don't trust them.

[johan]

This was originally a much longer reply but i've realised it just going to be a big waste of my time. Keep on believeing if that's what you want to do, i really don't care if you use the program or not.

[Paden]

How does one say the phrase, "chicken shit bastard" in Swedish? Johan, you can't fool people with your lies and garbage much longer, and you've never been able to fool anyone here. Too much experience in dealing with you and that treacherous piece of filth that you're related to, so take it and stuff it.

[SnarkyShark]

This was originally a much longer reply but i've realised it just going to be a big waste of my time. Keep on believeing if that's what you want to do, i really don't care if you use the program or not.

Oh but, I'll wager you do. I'll also bet that you're VERY eager to, at the very least, plant doubt among the members of this forum as to whether or not you can be trusted.

So, if any phorum member wants to use the TSR tool, go ahead.  Just remember that there is the very real possibility that you WILL end up having your personal information shared on a super-sekrit forum while DOT, evi and princesspadre point and laugh at your gullibility. Far-fetched? Hardly, that is EXACTLY what they did with the personal information of people (some of whom they only suspected of being file-sharers) in the past.

[kenmtl]

Does the tool's tool still work with no internet connection?

[putti]

Does the tool's tool still work with no internet connection?

I was wondering that myself, not that I plan to DL it.
Nothing in the world would make me DL anything from TSR...and they do care, otherwise they wouldn't try so very hard to make us believe that the tool is harmless.

[HugeLunatic]

It does appear to.  I installed it and deprived it of Internet from before it's conception.

[putti]

It does appear to.  I installed it and deprived it of Internet from before it's conception.

I like the way you phrase things. 
Thanks for the info.

[Pescado]

It does appear to.  I installed it and deprived it of Internet from before it's conception.

Probably won't help. I'd imagine there's a secondary system built into it, since this is far too obvious of a step. It's quite possible that if you ever release anything, it will steganographically encrypt the information into your output and send it out that way, so they can intercept the output and scan it. There is one way you can test this, though: Take two different computers that have never been in contact with each other, with completely different installation methods and data (don't put the same name into both computers), isolate them off the Internet, and then feed them the same input and md5sum the output. If the md5sums are the same, there is no unique information encrypted into the data. If they are different, the data has been steganographically altered to be unique. Of course, they probably know that, so it's hidden someplace else, but finding this guarantees proof of guilt.

[CatOfWar]

This was originally a much longer reply but i've realised it just going to be a big waste of my time. Keep on believeing if that's what you want to do, i really don't care if you use the program or not.

Yeah?  Try us.  I for one am quite curious what you had to say.  Whether, for example, you were going to tell us if TSR encrypts their users' passwords now.  You want people to try TSR's tool, you'll first need them to not distrust TSR.  Or just keep doing what you've always done, and we'll keep not trusting you.

*Cat wagers on the latter.*

[rum nate]

This was originally a much longer reply but i've realised it just going to be a big waste of my time. Keep on believeing if that's what you want to do, i really don't care if you use the program or not.

I too would like to know what you have to say, especially since I did ask a question directed at you on the previous page.

[justso]

Please don't hold your breath rum nate.  Just to clarify, for johan, I wasn't expectecting an answer from a TSR goffer.  I was after an honest reply.  I have never downloaded anything from TSR either free or pay.  I value my pc far to much to risk it.  So am hardly likely to download anything else from there.  If I wanted a bullshit, PR pouffed answer I would have registered and asked that question on a TSR forum, but I didn't I asked it here where honest answers are the norm not the exception.  So please be keeping your half assed answers for where they belong TSR forums.

[rum nate]

Oh I'm not holding my breath on it. I highly doubt he will answer my question because it had to do with them charging for content.

ETA: For anyone who wants to read it, Thomas made 2 posts about their tool on MTS.

Link: http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=358021&c=0&ht=&page=2&pp=25#startcomments

[snowball]

How does one say the phrase, "chicken shit bastard" in Swedish?

I'm much too lazy to think up a nice translation for that phrase exactly, but I can say something else...

Tidigare erfarenheter har visat att sannolikheten för att TSR ska vara pålitliga är ungefär lika stor som sannolikheten att min skrivbordsstol kommer att förvandlas till choklad. Jag väntar fortfarande på den där chokladen. 

edit: Because maj wrajting is stjupid.