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On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 15:46 -0500, Nancy Kramer wrote:
If you run the Google Toolbar they do know where you have been surfing on the web. They do record it. That's how you "pay" for the Toolbar. Your theory sounds correct to me. Regards, Nancy Kramer Webmaster http://www.americandreamcars.com Free Color Picture Ads for Collector Cars One of the Ten Best Places To Buy or Sell a Collector Car on the Web At 04:28 AM 2/25/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >A little OT but I was pondering the other day about something. > >Remember the Axis network camera "inurl" search that exposed internet >facing LAN cameras? Well I noticed that lots of those cameras are >configured on high ports. 7000 for example. Now, I wondered how Google gets >those cameras into its cache. Ok so there may be a web facing link >_somewhere_ that references the URL... but when you search there are >hundreds of these cameras in Google's cache. Now are Google going to tell >us that they got there merely from web links? Is Google doing port scans >when it finds an IP? Probably not.... So how about the Googlebar secretly >updating Google's cache when we use these things? > >Just a ponder, please dont flame me if its been covered before, I havent >got my flame-proof trousers on today! :) > >Cheers, > >Colin. > > > > > > > >"Ádám Szilveszter > dr." > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To Sent > by: [email protected] > full-disclosure-b cc > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ys.com Subject > Re: [Full-Disclosure] Google > Search and Gmail > Correlation 24/02/2005 > 12:12 > > > > >Hello Cody, > >I think that what you are observing is this: the cookie you get when >visiting your gmail account is valid for the whole google.com domain, and >therefore will be transferred again when you do web searches as well. > >As you write, this is not a bug per se, the cookie mechanism is working as >expected. > >It is also obvious that such an approach may raise privacy concerns. > >Now, *if* google wanted to mitigate this problem, it would be easy. They >should migrate the gmail service web frontend to a subdomain (say: >gmail.google.com) or even a whole new domain (gmail.com exists already but >www.gmail.com merely redirects) and make the cookie only valid in that >domain/subdomain. > >The questions is, do they want to do this? > >And yes, for now, if you are privacy conscious, delete the cookie before >doing a Google search (or using any other Google service). > >Regards: > >Szilveszter Adam >Budapest >Hungary >_______________________________________________ >Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. >Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html > > > > >*********************************************************************************** > >This e-mail is confidential and may contain privileged information. If >you are not the addressee or if you have received the e-mail in error, it may >be unlawful for you to read, copy, distribute, disclose or otherwise use >the information which it contains. Under these circumstances, please >notify us immediately by returning this mail to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and >deleting this e-mail from your system. > >Any views expressed by an individual within this e-mail do not necessarily >reflect the views of Cadbury Schweppes Plc or its subsidiaries. Cadbury >Schweppes Plc will not be bound by any agreement entered into as a result >of this email, unless its intention is clearly evidenced in the body of >the email. Whilst we have taken reasonable steps to ensure that this >e-mail and attachments are free from viruses, recipients are advised to >subject this mail to their own virus checking, in keeping with good >computing practice. Please >note that email received by Cadbury Schweppes Plc or its subsidiaries may >be monitored in accordance with the prevailing law in the United Kingdom. > >*********************************************************************************** > > >_______________________________________________ >Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. >Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html > > > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.4.0 - Release Date: 2/22/2005
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