From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 4 19:30:30 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1B0A1F7 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2012 19:30:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bright@mu.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86D778FC0C for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2012 19:30:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kruse-124.4.ixsystems.com (drawbridge.ixsystems.com [206.40.55.65]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 42A881A3DE1; Tue, 4 Dec 2012 11:30:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50BE4F4B.4040602@mu.org> Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:30:19 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Google spyware on FreeBSD Web site? References: <201212041900.MAA14107@lariat.net> In-Reply-To: <201212041900.MAA14107@lariat.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: chat@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:30:30 -0000 Brett, Can you please educate us more on these so called "cookies"? One would think that a cookie would be a delicious snack, even more so when you consider it combined with computers and especially the web. For how long have people been using these insidious "cookies" on the web? Are they as dangerous as you describe? I for one am seriously concerned about this issue as well. I was hoping for sweetness but I am now envisioning poison, sort of like the inevitable result of having Chipotle for lunch after a heavy night of drinking. -Alfred On 12/4/12 11:00 AM, Brett Glass wrote: > Everyone: > > Today, I received a rather shocking the announcement: The FreeBSD > Project's Web developer announced his intent to incorporate > corporate spyware into the FreeBSD.org Web site. > > As you may or may not know, the so-called "Google Analytics" scripts > do more than analyze the traffic which goes to a Web site. They also > spy on its users, planting cookies in their browsers and tracking their > activities on the Web for the exclusive benefit of one corporation: > Google. > > What's more, at least one organization which is paid to lobby for Google > in Washington, DC has announced that it does not intend to honor, and > does not recommend that Web sites honor, the "Do Not Track" header. > So, even if users are knowledgeable enough to cause their browsers to > generate this header (most are not), there is no reason to trust Google > to honor it. > > The FreeBSD project should not allow or condone such behavior -- > which is a serious security risk and violation of visitors' privacy. Nor > should it show favoritism toward a single corporation. > > I'd like to ask that the FreeBSD project set a good example for others > by refusing to incorporate corporate spyware into its Web site. If it > is desirable to gather statistics regarding the site, there are ways > to do it that do not compromise visitors' privacy or execute invasive > spyware on their machines. > > Sincerely, > Brett Glass > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >