Author: Sally Weltrop
Date: 13:55:17 11/25/01
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On November 25, 2001 at 09:38:10, Anthony Boynes wrote: >On November 25, 2001 at 03:51:31, Andy Serpa wrote: > >>Hmmm... >> >>Thoughts: >> >>1) According to the definition offered at Bugnosis.org, the FIDE counter does >>not consitute a web bug, because it is not invisible. In fact, not only is it >>not invisible, it is clearly an advertisment -- an invitation to check out >>FIDE.com. >> > >You didn't read the definition very closely. It doesn't say that a web bug has >to be invisible. > >>2) The counter has no particular "abilities" that enable it to do anything that >>CCC couldn't do otherwise, and every page, every image, every banner ad on the >>internet can do essentially the same thing -- although possibly not as easily. >>In other words, the invisible / not invisible distinction is essentially >>meaningless -- the bugnosis people just want to make it sound like something is >>done to you against your will. >> > >This is usually an automated process. Do you really think that most web hosting >sites have some poor guy manually looking over every entry in their logs? There >is plenty of software that will do this for them. > > >>3) As an example, CCC could take all the information it knows about all of us: >>Names, email addresses, logs of every time we log on and what posts we read -- >>they could make a file on each of us by analyzing the content of our posts to >>determine our likes & dislikes, and sell all that to whoever would buy it. The >>question is: do you trust CCC not to do that? > >Steve may not be doing this personally but there is a reason that people give >you "free counters". You get a counter and they get information about who >visits your site. Do you think they just throw this information in the bit >bucket after collect it? > >Good or bad, many people have not the slightest clue as to what information can >be collected about them. There have been several well known exploits which >allowed people running web sites to read the contents of your hard drive and >even pull information from cookies or data files on your machine. > >This may all be a trade-off but the stakes can be high if you not prepared, or >take a non-chalant attitude towards privacy. yeap ... thanks again Anthony. my sentiments exactly.
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