M&D website (was: Re: M&D and Journalism)

Chris Sweet csweet at gte.net
Wed Jun 4 18:27:51 CDT 1997


Paul Murphy wrote:
> 
> Bruce Applebaum writes:
> 
> >     Re the M&D website -- not only is it nothing spectacular, but the
> >     owners don't seem to keep it up.
> 
> What none of us has yet noticed is that, however inadequate the
> fsbassociates site may be, they are keeping track of us -- visiting the
> site occasions the dropping of a 'cookie' on the visitor's hard disk, by
> means of which (minimal) surveillance can be exercised.
> 
> Cheers,
> Paul

I never thought of checking this...haven't even looked at the cookie
file for months but sure enough its there...along with a lot of
other stuff that kinda gives me the creeps.

-chris



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