By Michael Seese
Tomorrow is Election Day. So I won't have to post any more snarky comments until 2016. (Though if I adhere to the traditional stumping timeline, I suppose I should start in 2 ½ years.)
I thought this represented the definitive commentary on the whole stinkin' process.
In several previous posts, I've talked about targeted ads. To state the obvious, a targeted ad is supposed to resonate with me because my browsing habits supposedly have put me into various demographic buckets.
I see them all the time in the infosec and privacy e-newsletters I
subscribe to. I also subscribe to the "Word Of The Day" from
Merriam-Webster.
Here are two of the ads I saw last week:
Hmmm.
What makes the irony even more delicious is that day's word of the day:
Clearly, the universe has a wicked sense of humor.
As I said last year, remember the old Chicago adage: "Vote early and vote often."
Does anyone care
to make a bold prediction as to the electoral vote count? Mine is
298-240. I'm not saying who will win, though...
By Michael Seese
I guess I'm just in a pissy mood this week with regard to news from the world of infosec and privacy...
One of my daily e-newsletters contained this link to an article about analytics company KISSmetrics and their use of supercookies to track online behavior. Cookies, as we all probably know by now, a small text files that web sites place on our computers. In many cases, they are necessary; without them, for example, you would have to re-enter your credentials on every page of your online banking site. But all browsers allow you to control cookies. Supercookies, as the article notes, track people online without first notifying them and giving them a choice.
What ticked me off about the article was this passage:
The company also will pay $2,500 each to the consumers who sued -- John Kim and Dan Schutzman -- and around $500,000 to the attorneys who brought the case, according to court papers filed on Thursday.
Sure...give the wronged parties a few thousand, and give the lawyers 200 times that!
I should have gone to law school!
Feel free to share your thoughts (of outrage).
