Linux and Spywares

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:50:00PM -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
> I find cookies to be a privacy issue more than a security issue.  I 
> don't like being tracked and cookies make it much easier for XYZ 
> company to trace my actions.  If some advertising firm is using third 
> party cookies, then they can cross site track me.

They can cross-site track you anyway from the server logs. Cookies do make
it a bit easier.

For a while, I had a script which every night and, instead of deleting
DoubleClick etc.'s cookies, I randomly scrambled the ID they assigned. Heh.


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