Zango 101

By Jimmy Daniels
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

Looks like the head guy at Zango, Daniel Todd, has been trying to edit a little Zango history at Wikipedia and he got caught doing it, if it is indeed his ip address. He says, “Numerous parties have a vested interest in keeping information about Zango inaccurate.”, uh, ya, that would be the people at Zango.

Stop right there. Please explain why endless individuals from Washington, Bellevue keep removing information that is accurate relating to the FTC settlement and non consensual installs. The following link at the end of this section (highlighted in bold) has been removed three times:

“The settlement bars future downloads of Zango’s adware without consumers’ consent, requires Zango to provide a way for consumers to remove the adware, and requires them to give up $3 million in ill-gotten gains.”[http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2006/11/zango.htm Zango, Inc. Settles FTC Charges] [[November 3]], [[2006]] These restrictions remain in force for twenty years.” Source: Vitalsecurity.org

Lots of interesting reading on the Talk:Zango page as well.

I must say, I’m particularly disturbed by the direction this wiki page has gone in. Upon seeing DTodds latest edit “(Removing 100% inaccuate information. Editor please track the IP of anyone replacing this information so we can discuss a ban.)”, he’s made it clear that he’s not only ignored the links to the pages you linked to regarding POV, conflict of interest and raising inaccurate information on the talk section of a page relating to yourself BEFORE editing / removing it, he’s effectively laying claim to Zangos ownership of this page (”..so we can discuss a ban”).

In effect, he’s going to continue to dictate to non zango affiliated users (ie regular Wikipedia users) what can and can’t be placed here, as well as having made numerous removals of factually valid information such as the FTC link and links to non consensual installs without any comeback - while still expecting people to start banning random IP addresses at his request. This makes something of mockery of the neutrality of this page. Source: Talk:Zango

We Say: Don’t worry Daniel, even if the truth about Zango disapears from Wikipedia, there will be people around to help everyone remember what really happened. Follow the security twitter for security info.