NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking

Re:NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking by quesera on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @12:50AM (#6886117)

So this is awesome, Ghostery has been a unsettling compromise for years now. I'm very happy to learn that you guys are doing it right. Thank you!

I've never been able to detect any nefarious network traffic caused by Ghostery (and I've looked), but I don't like the games they play, so I'll be pleased to ditch them without ceremony.

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Re:NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking by byoogle on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @03:17AM (#6886545)

Ghostery's game seems to be tricking users into sending their data to Evidon. Going off the company's own numbers, something like 45% of Ghostery users send Evidon data (by comparison, only 2% of Firefox users share data through Telemetry).

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Re:NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking by out_there on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @05:56PM (#6891484)

Ghostery's default setting is to disable submitting data. You have to explicity opt-in. How is that tricking?

I was interested in your project but your smearing of 'competitors' with FUD is seriously disconcerting.

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Re:NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking by byoogle on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @08:24PM (#6892212)

Congrats on your first post! [1]

1. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/A/astroturfing.html

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Re:NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking by rand456 on Friday December 13, 2013 @07:47PM (#6903896)

Congrats on the non-answer.

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