[citw150] Lesson 3, Question 6
- From: "Melissa" <MelissaDeMong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Listserv" <citw150@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 19:59:29 -0400
Hi everyone,
This starts out being a message about cookies and morphs into a message about
data mining, so I guess it's a two-tiered answer.
What I wanted to start out kind of tied into the porn message that I sent
earlier. I have the "cookies" feature on my computer set at "prompt" so that
every time I go to a site the computer has to ask if I want it to put a cookie
on it. Most times I do, and I just delete them all every other day or so.
What I have found, however, is that just doing some mundane searches I have had
porn sites attempt to put a cookie on my computer just from a search engine.
How can this be right?
This site:
http://www.windley.com/docs/Cookies%20and%20Privacy.pdf gives a lot of
straight-forward information on cookie basics. What it comes down to is it's
not necessarily the cookie from one web site that's the issue, it's the sharing
of the cookies that can cause the problem. Kind of like a Mongolian Flu
shared via a good chocolate chip cookie.
Then there's times that I have to look up a lot of strange government
information, like information on cargo ships or vessels that sail the big
bodies of water or information on trains. This is all the kind of stuff that
bad people who want to do bad things in our country might look up to build bad
things.
Which leads me to the thought that I think government has too much power over
what we do on the Internet. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if I was a
little on the fringe of someone that they keep their eye on because of all the
medical, international, and government research that I have to do for my job.
Here is some information on what they do:
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04548.pdf\
Read what happened to this guy because he had a traffic violation and somewhere
along the line someone had it show up as jail time. What's wrong with that
picture? His information is at:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/18/2003/main589352.shtml
Do other people have their cookie prompts turned on, I wonder?
Take care, everyone.
Melissa
MelissaDeMong@xxxxxxxxxxx
"Everyone gets the same 24 hours in a day; the difference is what you do with
them."
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