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From: ta1xxx on 5 Aug 2010 12:02
Can someone here direct me to a good tutorial about cookies, beacons,
and other methods of tracking web site visits and visitors?

The Wall Street J is currently running a series on computer privacy,
focusing on how companies (vendors) use cookies, beacons, and other
methods of learning details of visitors to their web sites (see
wsj.com/wtk or http://online.wsj.com/public/page/what-they-know-digital-privacy.html
).

But the reporters do not seem to have any kind of in-depth
understanding of the technical aspects of these things --cookies,
capturing ISP addresses, the use of a HOSTS file, how to identify and
remove Flash cookies, etc-- and I'd like to learn more about these
things. So if anyone can direct me to any kind of in-depth material
about these things, how they work, etc, I'd appreciate it.
From: ~BD~ on 5 Aug 2010 13:06
ta1xxx(a)verizon.net wrote:
> Can someone here direct me to a good tutorial about cookies, beacons,
> and other methods of tracking web site visits and visitors?
>
> The Wall Street J is currently running a series on computer privacy,
> focusing on how companies (vendors) use cookies, beacons, and other
> methods of learning details of visitors to their web sites (see
> wsj.com/wtk or http://online.wsj.com/public/page/what-they-know-digital-privacy.html
> ).
>
> But the reporters do not seem to have any kind of in-depth
> understanding of the technical aspects of these things --cookies,
> capturing ISP addresses, the use of a HOSTS file, how to identify and
> remove Flash cookies, etc-- and I'd like to learn more about these
> things. So if anyone can direct me to any kind of in-depth material
> about these things, how they work, etc, I'd appreciate it.


To get some idea of what *you* give away when you go to *any* URL go
here http://www.browserreport.com/

You might like to start your exploration here:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/cookie.htm

HTH

--
Dave
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