[citw150] Re: Lesson 3, Question 6
- From: "Derek McWilliams" <mcwilliamsda@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <citw150@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 20:38:24 -0400
I hear ya!!! But I have stopped concerning myself with it. I'm so sick
and tired of not being able to "live my freedom" because of the
possibility of someone trying to "steal my identity", or track what site
I have or have not gone to. I'm a grown person, pay taxes, and have the
right to live my life anyway I choose so long as it doesn't violate the
rights of others and their pursuit of happiness.
Derek McWilliams
-----Original Message-----
From: citw150-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:citw150-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Melissa
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 7:59 PM
To: Listserv
Subject: [citw150] Lesson 3, Question 6
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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