HP says it is committed to respecting privacy - cough!

WE GOT THE funniest letter we have seen in a long time from HP, probably because they don't know it's us. The laughable part was the end. Boy do they have some nerve to put this in the fine print at the end.

HP is committed to respecting your privacy and occasionally works with, third-party subscription lists such as ours to share information about HP products and services with new audiences. HP's intent is to work only with reputable partners and send messages to you only with your permission. To stop receiving messages from Ziff Davis communications, please follow the instructions below.

Let's look at that in more detail. HP promises to respect your privacy by selling your info to anyone it chooses. It has a long history of working with respectable organisations on this front who will protect HP up to and including pleading the fifth in front of Congress. We are safe there.

We can't tell you how good it makes us feel that HP is proactively protecting our privacy. Now if it would only come clean about the identity thefting and pretexting scandal, we might believe it. No, too many people got promotions out of that. And Hurd's memory is to hazy for us to be convinced. µ