[TriLUG] Website drive-by shooting

Matt Flyer matt at noway2.thruhere.net
Fri Apr 11 14:39:30 EDT 2014


An interesting experiment would be to repeat this with either Ghostery, Noscript, or both to see what trackers are in use and see if you can block it.
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From: Michael Peters <michael00peters at gmail.com>
Sender: trilug-bounces at trilug.orgDate: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:35:41 
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Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Website drive-by shooting

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Brian McCullough <bdmc at buadh-brath.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 02:22:12PM -0400, Ken MacKenzie wrote:
>> Cookies... like say the Facebook one...
>
> Bill and I talked about this last night, and he suggested something like
> that.
>
> I gather that ( perhaps ) the web site is reading Facebook's cookies?

Just to clarify, other sites can't read Facebook's cookies. All they
can do is make API calls to facebook on your behalf. Now Facebook
could be returning all kinds of data about you to that site. But
that's because Facebook is being shifty, not because your cookies are
being read by some random site.
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