Cookie Monster on Facebook Cookie diet

The only person I know of that really likes cookies is Cookie Monster.  He will take any cookie and enjoys all of them.  He likes chocolate chip, peanut butter and sugar cookies but I am not so sure he would like the cookies that Facebook is serving.

Josh Constine of Inside Facebook writes, “Facebook’s business is built on trust, but that trust has been shaken over the past few weeks by criticism and speculation regarding how it uses browser cookies to get data about users.”

He further writes, “A lack of thorough documentation explaining what each of its cookies does has led some observers to assume that the company is tracking offsite browsing behavior in order to target ads.”

If Facebook is not using this information to track its users why did it file for a patent that contains the line “A method is described for tracking information about the activities of users of a social networking system while on another domain”?

If they are not tracking you now, I’m sure they will be in the future.

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With that info,

Safer Surfing!

What? Me Worry?

Maybe we all should.

PC World reports that hackers have cracked Internet encryption, TLS 1.0, “used by most major browsers and websites”.

 

“Data encryption is the cornerstone of Internet security. Every time you log into your email account or sign into an online retailer like Amazon, chances are that your browser is establishing a secure connection to the server using an encryption technology called TLS (Transport Layer Security).”

“First developed in 1999 as an improvement over SSL (Secure Socket Layer) 3.0 encryption, TLS 1.0 is used as part of HTTPS encryption and is now the Web standard for data encryption. Almost all websites and browsers use TLS to secure information being transferred between you and the site,”

Read more here.

With that Info,

Safe Surfing!