Seeking TECH tutorial about cookies, beacons, etc

[ta1xxx@verizon.net]

Can someone here direct me to a good tutorial about cookies, beacons,
and other methods of tracking web site visits and visitors?

The Wall Street J is currently running a series on computer privacy,
focusing on how companies (vendors) use cookies, beacons, and other
methods of learning details of visitors to their web sites (see
wsj.com/wtk or http://online.wsj.com/public/page/wh...l-privacy.html
).

But the reporters do not seem to have any kind of in-depth
understanding of the technical aspects of these things --cookies,
capturing ISP addresses, the use of a HOSTS file, how to identify and
remove Flash cookies, etc-- and I'd like to learn more about these
things. So if anyone can direct me to any kind of in-depth material
about these things, how they work, etc, I'd appreciate it.

[~BD~]

ta1xxx@verizon.net wrote:
> Can someone here direct me to a good tutorial about cookies, beacons,
> and other methods of tracking web site visits and visitors?
>
> The Wall Street J is currently running a series on computer privacy,
> focusing on how companies (vendors) use cookies, beacons, and other
> methods of learning details of visitors to their web sites (see
> wsj.com/wtk or http://online.wsj.com/public/page/wh...l-privacy.html
> ).
>
> But the reporters do not seem to have any kind of in-depth
> understanding of the technical aspects of these things --cookies,
> capturing ISP addresses, the use of a HOSTS file, how to identify and
> remove Flash cookies, etc-- and I'd like to learn more about these
> things. So if anyone can direct me to any kind of in-depth material
> about these things, how they work, etc, I'd appreciate it.


To get some idea of what *you* give away when you go to *any* URL go
here http://www.browserreport.com/

You might like to start your exploration here:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/cookie.htm

HTH

--
Dave

[Caravaggio]

On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 09:02:16 -0700 (PDT), "ta1xxx@verizon.net"
<ta1xxx@verizon.net> wrote:

>Can someone here direct me to a good tutorial about cookies, beacons,
>and other methods of tracking web site visits and visitors?
>
>The Wall Street J is currently running a series on computer privacy,
>focusing on how companies (vendors) use cookies, beacons, and other
>methods of learning details of visitors to their web sites (see
>wsj.com/wtk or http://online.wsj.com/public/page/wh...l-privacy.html
>).
>
>But the reporters do not seem to have any kind of in-depth
>understanding of the technical aspects of these things --cookies,
>capturing ISP addresses, the use of a HOSTS file, how to identify and
>remove Flash cookies, etc-- and I'd like to learn more about these
>things. So if anyone can direct me to any kind of in-depth material
>about these things, how they work, etc, I'd appreciate it.




http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yah...g/details.html
then search through yahoo privacy where they describe beacons, etc.

http://hackademix.net/
Giorgio Maone’s answers to the Web, the Universe, and Everything
Why another useless blog?
Since I always ended throwing all my rants about web security and
other stuff in comments to other’s blogs, I finally decided to start
my own. I’m not sure how long I’ll resist and where I’ll find the time
to uh blog, but at least the flag is planted.
Why another pseudo-hackerish dark theme?
To save the Planet from global warming, of course.
http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/
http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/...megawatts.html






You can always do a scroogle for
capturing ISP addresses
www.eff.org/wp/detecting-packet-injection
labnol.blogspot.com/2006/08/how-to-stop-google-from-recording-your.html
www.worldminer.com/emailserver.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmel_AVR

or any other subject you desire information.

http://www.gohacking.com/category/email-security
http://www.gohacking.com/2010/04/ben...-an-email.html


http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page


http://www.hack.channel.or.jp/live/goods.html
neat site but i doesnt know a word of spanish.