Terms of service violations. Absence of a cookie can also be detected.<br><br><fiction> ToS (in very small print) requires access cookie to be kept for at least 90 days. I dump my cookies to block target ads and hit a related site. There logging tracks time and IP and MAC and sees I should have a cookie but don't. They report automatically like the red-light cameras a ToS violation. I get a ticket in the mail </fiction><br>
<br>If I used their "free service" in exchange for their tracking cookie placement, they could make a compelling case for theft if I dump the cookie.<br><br>Minority Report looks pretty tame.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Pete Hardie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pete.hardie@gmail.com" target="_blank">pete.hardie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><font><font face="georgia,serif">How so? Is not the owner of the hardware the one who gets to set the rules for 'allowed access'? Just like when I log into my company's machines and see that login banner declaring that use of the system is consent to monitoring?<br>
</font></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="im"><br clear="all"><div>Pete Hardie<br>--------<br>Better Living Through Bitmaps</div>
<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Pete Hardie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pete.hardie@gmail.com" target="_blank">pete.hardie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><font><font face="georgia,serif">I wonder if the anti-"hacking" laws might be harnessed to outlaw overly persistent cookies - I'm not bothered by regular ones, but those Flask LSOs and the other resurrecting ones are truly evil<span><font color="#888888"><br>
</font></span></font></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div>Pete Hardie<br>--------<br>Better Living Through Bitmaps</div></font></span><div><div>
<br clear="all"><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>I expect the anti-"hacking" laws will be used to block cookie deletion. <br></div></div><span><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br>-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br>
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