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Re: How do web beacons work?
From: William Salusky <change () dmzs com>
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:12:12 -0500
I hadn't come across Yahoo's terminology before but I highly doubt it is anything more advanced than an image HREF to a unique logging host. Referrer and cookie information will come along, voila! A Web Beacon. This of course is just my wag at what they are doing, and maybe I'm wrong. Though I wouldn't consider this to be a Honeytoken either, since it isn't deployed to identify unwanted,unexpected or known-bad activity.
W Lance Spitzner wrote:
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)