New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing

Got (soy) milk?

The WaPo writer's take on cookies is ... not mine. Then again, I wrote the
cookie portions of the P3P spec and was "inside" the meetings between M$'s
IE team circa IE5.5 pre-fcs and the (other) IAB (the word is "Advertizers")
and the P3P tech and policy teams.

I worked for Engage (statistical user tracking) and compeated with DoubleClick
(deterministic user tracking) at the time, so I wouldn't know as much as he
does.

Walking down the cookie path there is ...

name: WebLogicSessionAc2
cont: BFQyXGC69R1Z50JL8ZBuhBubbnR3BzbFzqythwbSKtlS59ZX41Sw!-1332720106!-548373882
host: www.washingtonpost.com
path: /
type: any type of connection
expr: at end of session 616 bits of session state
labl: none

name: DMID3
cont: 4WuLXH8AAAEAAD40XBYAAABD
host: .rsi.washingtonpost.com
path: /
type: any type of connection 200 bits of persistent state
expr: 12/14/24 09:13:45 persistent till 2024
labl: stores identifiable information without any user consent

name: sa_cdc_u
cont: g00200200000006AB11034667790000794930.0018C61897
host: .surfaid.ihost.com
path: /crc
type: any type of connection 376 bits of persistent state
expr: 01/29/12 18:45:58 persistent till 2012
labl: does not store identifiable information

Registration form interposition, collecting
  email address
  password
  us zip code
  iso3166 id (string form)
  gender
  year of birth
  job title
  primary responsiblity
  job industry
  company size
  1st-party marketing click box (default opt out)
  3rd-party marketing click box (default opt out)
  16 x 1st-party targeted content click box (default opt out)