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Re: [privacy] ComScore Networks: The Big Brother of the Internet?
From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:45:14 -0500
An earlier write-up on Comscore and how they observe https traffic: Blocking Marketscore: Why Cornell Did It http://www.cit.cornell.edu/computer/security/marketscore/ The company use to offer a Web acceleration service via http proxy servers in order to watch what people do on the Internet. When I spoke to some of their technical people on the phone, I never got a very good answer how they were able to speed-up people's broadband connections..... Richard
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via Forbes.com. [snip] ComScore Networks is the Big Brother of the Internet. The widely-used online research company takes virtual photos of every Web page viewed by its 1 million participants, even transactions completed in secure sessions, like shopping or online checking. Then comScore aggregates the information into market analysis for its over 500 clients, including such large companies as Ford Motor, Microsoft and The New York Times Co. ComScore says that its participants are willing exhibitionists, happily selling their online privacy for gift certificates and free screensavers. But two computer scientists are raising new questions about comScore, claiming that company tracking software is being installed without consent on an unknown number of computers. [snip] More: http://www.forbes.com/security/2006/12/07/internet-security-research-tech_c x_ll_1208comscore.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.1 (Build 1557) wj8DBQFFebyrq1pz9mNUZTMRAvhSAKChrqdWXBLH2nDZ1vKvnzOuyu+g+QCfRMl6 M9TO8FGPwdWpxKmJwE1DeuU= =hlJf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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- [privacy] ComScore Networks: The Big Brother of the Internet? Fergie (Dec 08)
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- Re: [privacy] ComScore Networks: The Big Brother of the Internet? Brian Loe (Dec 08)
- Re: [privacy] ComScore Networks: The Big Brother of the Internet? Richard M. Smith (Dec 08)