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Wednesday, 15 January, 2003
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Web Beacons
Scrolling through the near infinite reaches of my news aggregator I came across two pieces dealing with yahoo's default use of web beacons. Nasty little things those, from what I gather they are little java entities often embedded in IMG tags such as single pixel gif images. these can be used in web pages or deployed in HTML email. They seem to be able to do everything cookies did, maybe more, and exist because people found out about cookies and begain disabling them. Yahoo at least let's you opt out at the source. I'll have to try to catch one of these in the wild, inside some piece of spam to see what the less responsible are up to.
10:12:17 AM  ;
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Paul Bushmiller.
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