Re: Linux and spyware?

"Sebastian Hans" <hanss@in.tum.de> wrote in message
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> Kenneth A Kauffman <kkauffman@nospam.headfog.com> wrote:
> >
> > Devils advocate...
> >
> > Why would you care about blocking web bugs? Its not doing anything to
your
> > local machine or causing extra pop ups. Its mostly to target
demographic
> > information regarding browsing habits.
> >
> > Let the flames begin...
>
> Because where I go in the web is none of doubleclick.net's business.
> It's that simple.
>
> What would you say if at every street corner there stood a person whose
> job it was to tag people and note where they were going? Would this
> disturb you? Would you care if they told you it was *mostly* to gather
> data for traffic statistics?
>
> Seb.

Somewhat good argument. However, they DO monitor cars in "similar" fashion.
Not by tagging them individually, but by monitoring volume in certain areas.
You know those "rubber hoses" that show up across roads every once in
awhile...

A person DOES have the right to watch you from a distance to see if you
cross a particular intersection in a public area, but not to follow you
continuously. A web bug really only "checks you out" when you hit a
specific "intersection", not through the life of your browsing experience.

ken k

Kenneth A Kauffman <kkauffman@nospam.headfog.com> wrote:
> "Sebastian Hans" <hanss@in.tum.de> wrote in message
> news:bdrmeq$4bo2$3@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de...
>> Kenneth A Kauffman <kkauffman@nospam.headfog.com> wrote:
[why care about web bugs?]
>>
>> What would you say if at every street corner there stood a person whose
>> job it was to tag people and note where they were going? Would this
>> disturb you? Would you care if they told you it was *mostly* to gather
>> data for traffic statistics?
>
> Somewhat good argument. However, they DO monitor cars in "similar" fashion.
> Not by tagging them individually, but by monitoring volume in certain areas.
> You know those "rubber hoses" that show up across roads every once in
> awhile...

Yes, but they don't try to track me, personally.

> A person DOES have the right to watch you from a distance to see if you
> cross a particular intersection in a public area, but not to follow you
> continuously. A web bug really only "checks you out" when you hit a
> specific "intersection", not through the life of your browsing experience.

But they try. Anyway, just because it's legal, I don't have to like it.

Ciao.
Seb.