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Examples
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So much for the big debate about the significance of the phone-home routine.
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Take your phone-home software scheme and shove it.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Spore reviews aren’t mind blowing… 2008
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By the way, the required phone-home feature of your single player game is fully encrypted.
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Far from the cuddly ET, phone-home variety, the media prefers an evil, nasty, more-freakish and repulsive creature.
Earth Invaded by killer, bug-eyed space devils. Run for your lives! 2008
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Advanced spyware drives increase in malware and phone-home sites: The number of malware sites
EFYTIMES.COM - by EFY NEWSNETWORK TEAM mailto:efynm1@efyindia.com 2010
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Advanced spyware drives increase in malware and phone-home sites: The number of malware sites
EFYTIMES.COM - by EFY NEWSNETWORK TEAM mailto:efynm1@efyindia.com 2010
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Yet this product continues to phone-home to this terabit host.
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Advanced spyware drives increase in malware and phone-home sites: The number of malware sites
EFYTIMES.COM - by EFY NEWSNETWORK TEAM mailto:efynm1@efyindia.com 2010
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- Disable the phone-home capability in current versions.
MacUpdate - Mac OS X 2010
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When most security-savvy computer users including myself realize that so-called security software (or any software) has a phone-home feature that allows for deactivation when a new version is released, we immediately doubt its trustworthiness.
MacUpdate - Mac OS X 2010
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