[ale] [OT]I think this is awesome, you may find it scary

[Jim Kinney]

Terms of service violations. Absence of a cookie can also be detected.

<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>

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.

Minority Report looks pretty tame.

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>
> Pete Hardie
> --------
> Better Living Through Bitmaps
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> Pete Hardie
>>> --------
>>> Better Living Through Bitmaps
>>>
>>>
>>> I expect the anti-"hacking" laws will be used to block cookie deletion.
>>
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*Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain
at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
It won't fatten the dog.
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