For those of you who surf with third-party cookies disabled to try and minimize the ways people can collect personal info there is a pretty disturbing new method being used by Paypal and Doubleclick to do this. It completely gets around any sort of cookie blocking or filtering. Full details are in Episode 119 of Security Now. It starts with about a 20 min discussion of how cookies work and then the stuff about what Paypal is doing:
http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm The page also has a transcript for those that want to skim and not listen. I think Steve brings up a good point at the end that you might not be any better using Google Checkout because Google is going to own Doubleclick and who knows what sort of relationship they will have. But I personally would rather use Google Checkout or Paypal instead of giving every site I make one-time purchases at my credit card info and all my details. -- Brian Weeden
