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out and modified. The important trade-off is between the effort to install
such security solutions versus the problems that may ar ise if a manipulation
occurs.What is the risk?Why should an agency try to modify your agent when
it is just collecting information? Sure, the agency could guess that after the
phase of gathering product information there might come a phase where you,
as owner, will buy a product. Thus, the agency could, for example, provide
some offer that attracts your attention. However, your risk when using an
unprotected mobile agent is that you must spend time visiting the Web page
of the purchaser and detecting that the offer was bogus. Your agent did not
reveal more information about its owner than ...