Cookie Scan

[Bill Sanderson]

You aren't telling me anything I don't know. Today I rode to work on a
trolley car in Philadelphia, equipped with surveillance cameras. I took
money out at an ATM, also equipped with a camera. And there may have been
others as well, that I'm not aware of.

That doesn't surprise me, nor does it give me the warm fuzzies.

However, the message was about one poster's characterization of another--not
about whether there's surveillance or data aggregation involved in cookies.
While there have been posts here from both spyware vendors and, probably,
cookie salesman, as far as I know JohnF is in neither category--he was
quoting.

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FAQ for Microsoft Antispyware:
http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm

I hate to dissapoint you. I would bet that you, your car
and even tag are video recorded everyday when you drive
on public streets, park in shopping centers, and walk
through the malls. Everytime you use a debit or credit
card, someone is tracking your sales habits. These are
public places and we risk this when we travel out of our
homes. The internet is public and there are risks in the
virtual world similar to the real world. FIrewalls,
anitvirus and spyware protection are essential tools but
when we travel in public, we run those risks.

-----Original Message-----
Cool it--As far as I know, JohnF was just quoting material from the cookie
salespeople--he didn't claim to be one.

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FAQ for Microsoft Antispyware:
http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm

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JohnF. wrote:

Sometimes services such as ours are miss-construed as "spyware" or
"profilers." Neither of these is true. None of our services collect
personally identifiable information (PII).

You folks just don't get it...

This computer belongs to ME. ALL the data on it belongs to ME, also...
and for that reason, I alone will decide who I allow to have my data.

Whether or not the data you collect is "personally identifiable" or not
is irrelevant. I, and many other computer users, are sick and tired of
software companies (like your "service") thinking they can collect any
damn thing they want from our computers just because [they claim] it's
not personally identifiable.

Obviously you haven't a clue what the anti- spyware/malware movement is
all about.

Have a rotten day.

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