New Third Voice Version Website Annotation6/5/2000; 7:11:45 AM April 4, 2000: There is a new version of Third Voice out now. I don't have time to do a full analysis of it today, but you can take a look at their online tour.

My objections remain unchanged, neither added to nor subtracted from. I still object to the attaching (and therefore modification) of content to arbitrary webpages from arbitrary people. I still object to the systematic modification and profiting from copyrighted material that does not belong to Third Voice. I still think they'd lose a lawsuit if anybody sued them.

After further consideration of that sentance... I'm even more convinced now they'd lose a lawsuit then I was when I first started speaking out against Third Voice. While I would not approve of this tactic, it would be awfully easy to label the company as a bunch of "hackers" (after all, only "hackers" can change websites), and once that word is attached to them, the judicial system would be happy to tear them apart. This tactic would do more harm then good in the long run, but I think Third Voice is quite vulnerable to it in the short-term.

My tentative projection is that they've cleaned up the security issues to a large extent. In some sense, this was necessitated by the fact that the same security holes they previously opened in web pages could be used to shut Third Voice itself out of a web page... with incentive like that, no wonder they moved out of the browser window itself.