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How do web beacons work?
From: Lance Spitzner <lance () honeynet org>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 08:28:10 -0600
Okay, what exactly is a web beacon? Its sounds kinda like a honeytoken, but I've never heard of the term before. Now that I did a google, looks like quite a few are using them to track users. What exactly is a 'web beacon' and how does it technically work?
http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/beacons/details.html Thanks! lance
Current thread:
- How do web beacons work? Lance Spitzner (Jan 06)
- Re: How do web beacons work? Thorsten Holz (Jan 06)
- Re: How do web beacons work? William Salusky (Jan 06)
- Re: How do web beacons work? MrDemeanour (Jan 06)
- Re: How do web beacons work? Michal Zalewski (Jan 06)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: How do web beacons work? Bill Ward (Jan 06)
- RE: How do web beacons work? Bill Ward (Jan 07)