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Subject: Re: Hans Gerber is suspended--thanks for your understanding

Author: José Antônio Fabiano Mendes

Date: 07:26:34 06/30/00

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On June 30, 2000 at 05:28:31, Michael Cummings wrote:

>On June 30, 2000 at 04:38:25, Jeroen van Dorp wrote:
>
>>You should download IDCIde, from http://www.idcide.com; it blocks cookies (any
>>decent browser can do that) on different levels or completely. But more
>>interesting, it network tracks and groups them.
>>
>>You'll be amazed to look at the tracking stats.
>>
>>An example: I daily visit http://www.calvinandhobbes.com, an innocent cartoon of
>>a little boy and his tiger.
>>The site has some 10 trackers at a time, with the well known doubleclick and so
>>on.
>>
>>If you look at the sites that say doubleclick follows you over the net any
>>sucker could make up a profile of your interests on the net (and probably in
>>real life) that's over 90% accurate.
>>
>>I was very well known to cookies, but until IDCide I never fully appreciated
>>their cleverness.
>>
>>Jeroen ;-}
>
>There is a freeware program called Zone Alarm. It is capable of making you roam
>the net in stealth. I have logged on a few times and have had this program block
>communication from sites I have not been to in months

"This Firewall has been found to contain a serious security hole
that would allow a remote attacker to TCP and UDP scan the entire
host´s port range without detection."
http://www.securiteam.com/exploits/archive.html
[please see April 2000 #13 article,"Zone Alarm Firewall can be easily
scanned for open ports"]    JAFM



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