EULAlyzer: The End User License Agreement Analyzer

Technology is wonderful.

Here's a little program that'll scan through the End User License Agreement of a given installation program and flag any suspicious language that might lead to some kind of security concern.

Why is it important to know what's in an EULA, you ask? Well, because as hard as it might be to believe, randomly appearing porn sites can sometimes be something of an inconvenience.

From the EULAlyzer website:

ULAlyzer can analyze license agreements in seconds, and provide a detailed listing of potentially interesting words and phrases. Discover if the software you're about to install displays pop-up ads, transmits personally identifiable information, uses unique identifiers to track you, or much much more.

The Benefits

• Discover potentially hidden behavior about the software you’re going to install
• Pick up on things you missed when reading license agreements
• Keep a saved database of the license agreements you view
• Instant results - super-fast analysis in just a second

And with additional features like the EULA Research Center, which optionally allows users to anonymously submit license agreements they scan to help us to further improve the program, everyone can be a part of the effort to make something that used to be so tedious, so easy.

Via Lifehacker.

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