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CIA Tracking Website Users With Banned Cookies
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posted by turmis
on Thursday March 21, @11:38AM
from the accident?-right...-and-they-never-took-a-shot-at-castro dept.
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The CIA was forced to remove a user-tracking device from its reading room website this week. Daniel Brandt, the president of Public Information Research, discovered that the website was placing banned cookies on his machine: a long-term cookie that tracked his surfing. This type of user-tracking was banned from use in government agencies in 2000. The reading room allows users to search the text of recently released CIA documents. This means that the CIA could have tracked users by the information they requested. The CIA claims that the cookie software was an accident and had been placed there by an "off-the-shelf" Web design package.
Read more at CNN.
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