[PLUG] OT: Yahoo! is watching you...
Bill
bill at coho.net
Sat Apr 20 05:43:23 UTC 2002
Interesting discovery for those using Opera--if you tell it not to save
new cookies on exit it will still let folks access old cookies they have
planted. The cookie file ($HOME/.opera/cookies4.dat) seemed to have some
binary (non-ascii) data in it, so I was worried about editing it by
hand. As an experiment I moved it to another
directory, restarted opera (I had already set the thing to not save
cookies
on exit) and logged into Yahoo. It let log in, made itself a new
cookes4.dat file, but apparently did not store anything in it. So for a
mild tradeoff in convenience you can at least make things a little harder
for webbug tracking. Of course, I am assuming that the free version of
Opera isn't tracking my every move when it gets its %^&$ ads.
Bill
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Sandy Herring wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Dean S. Messing wrote:
> [...]
> > Thanks for the heads up, Sandy. Now would someone kindly 'spain how
> > they do this? Please disabuse me of my naivete.
>
> They're also known as Web Bugs...
>
> http://www.privacyfoundation.org/resources/webbug.asp
>
> Sandy
>
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