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  • From: Thomas Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com>
  • To: internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: CIA caught using cookies
  • Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:25:36 -0500


Apparently cookies are a banned form of Internet surveillance. The CIA used 'em anyhow:

"The agency removed software from one
of its Web sites this week after a private
group discovered that the CIA was using
banned Internet tracking technology called
"cookies," said Mike Stepp, who manages
the CIA's public Web site."

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/03/20/cia.web.privacy.ap/index.html

More to it than that, of course. They were using persistent cookies to track people who looked at their anti-drug propaganda.

""Unbeknownst to us, it was loaded with some software, commercial
off-the-shelf
software used for Web analysis," Stepp said. The software included a cookie that tracked repeat visitors to the site."

Sales lead there for ya, Mr. Czeiszperger!

TaB


  • CIA caught using cookies, Thomas Beckett, 03/20/2002

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