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

Author: Michael Cummings

Date: 07:40:36 06/30/00

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On June 30, 2000 at 10:26:34, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote:

>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

Yes, The people from Zone Alarm actually stated this to me in an email. But this
does not apply when you use maximum security. And in the latest update this has
actually been fixed, Along with a few other bugs.

The program was last updated in late May.



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