Archive for the ‘LINKS’ Category.
March 23, 2001, 8:05 am
Not only does the following site help you opt out from various advertisers tracking cookies, but some of the sites (e.g. hitbox)
will give you some idea of what they’re tracking so far.
From debris.com‘
s Opt out of web advertisers’ tracking cookies:
For your anonymous surfing pleasure, here are quick links to opt out of the 3rd-party tracking cookies issued by some of the large banner-ad networks. Some of these links go to an opt-out form, which you must click or submit; others do the opt-out automatically. You may wish to open these in new windows (MacOS users: command-click to do this easily in iCab, IE, Opera, or Navigator).
AdForce, AvenueA, Advertising.com, CoreMetrics (scroll to the bottom), DoubleClick, Engage.com, Enliven, Hitbox, Interadnet, MatchLogic, MediaPlex
24/7 Media claims to have an opt-out tool, but instead links to networkadvertising.org, which is an alliance of online advertisers that does not have your best interests in mind. (They claim that Web advertising is critical to the vitality of the Web! Gad.) Further, networkadvertising.org does not have an opt-out for 24/7 tracking cookies.
Opting out is an imperfect solution to the threats to your privacy — but it’s the best we have. The alternative, disabling cookies entirely, will prevent you from using some websites, e.g. buy.com, E*Trade, AmeriTrade, MicroWarehouse, CDW, Yahoo Mail or most other services that require you to log in. Some other popular sites can be used when you have cookies disabled, but the site’s functionality is limited (e.g. Amazon, Ebay).
March 22, 2001, 3:56 pm
Courtney Love has written a compelling open letter to her fellow recording artists that follows up nicely on her speech last year, which did Napster more good than all the Bertelsmann money in the world.
[cluetrain News]
March 22, 2001, 3:53 pm
Craig Burton weighs in on Microsoft’s Hailstorm.
Key quote: The bad news about this is that we have to live with all this Microsoft FUD while they try to own what can’t be owned and control what can’t be controlled. The good news about this is that it leaves lots of room for the Internet OS to happen — with, or without Microsoft.
[via cluetrain News]
March 22, 2001, 3:50 pm
Microsoft warns of hijacked certificates. According to Microsoft, someone posing as a Microsoft employee tricked VeriSign, which hands out so-called digital signatures, into issuing the two certificates in the software giant’s name on Jan. 30 and Jan. 31.
(See also News.com.)
[via Tomalak’s Realm]
March 22, 2001, 8:22 am
Amazoning The News
by Ellen Kampinsky, Shayne Bowman, Chris Willis
Adapted from a presentation by Ellen Kampinsky at The Editor & Publisher Interactive Newspaper Conference, Feb. 21, 2001
What if we told stories on the web the way Amazon sells books? Storytelling on the web demands its own vocabulary and strategies — indeed a whole new way of thinking. The web site that does the best job of telling stories in a web-appropriate way is also the most successful: Amazon. So blow up your old notion of “story.” See what happens when you apply Amazon’s user-savvy approach to typical news events.
[via Evhead via Scripting News]
March 22, 2001, 8:16 am
NY Times: Cryptologists Discover Flaw in E-Mail Security Program. According to a statement issued yesterday by ICZ, an information technology company in Prague with about 500 employees, the cryptologists, Vlastimil Klima and Tomas Rosa, found the problem while doing research on secure communications for the Czech government. [Tomalak’s Realm]
March 22, 2001, 8:14 am
ZDNN: PGP inventor downplays encryption flaw. Two Czech researchers said Tuesday that they had found a hole in the widely used encryption and digital signature standard known as OpenPGP. They remained silent on the technical details, however, leaving many security experts wondering whether the flaw actually existed. [Tomalak’s Realm]
