Posted: 7/7/2007 6:24:43 PM EDT
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Another post got me wondering about Solaris so I went to their website and got this. "Unable to verify the identity of ssl1.taggingserver.netmining.com as a trusted site" I seem to remember an post some months back about datamining but forget the specifics. Can someone refresh my memory? xxxx |
| datamining is when companies compile data on a particular shopper (say yourself, for instance). That is what tracking cookies are for. They track where you go, what you are interested in, and compile a profile on you so that they can better determine who you are without you ever having to tell them. How you vote, how you shop, what you like, what you wear, where you shop, estimate how much you make per year, if you have a house or not, how much your house is worth, etc... |
They can only collect data relevant to what you do on their sites. If you get a tracking cookie from my site, what it tells me is that this same person (rather this same web browser) went to page x, then page y, page z, on what days, etc. It cannot gather information you have elsewhere on your computer, nor can it gather information on what you do on other sites. The only nefarious purposes it (or any cookie) can be put to would be if you came to my site, say it's one of your favorites and you've long ago entered your real name, address, etc. I can then enter into an agreement with another site where when you visit their site, they have a hidden html element that references mine (and thus your identification via cookie on my site), and I share that tracking data with them. Without special backend processing and inter-site cooperation, a cookie cannot be used on any domain except the one that created it. |
Why? I've built a Linux box with no problem. Tried several distro's then installed FreeSpire, seems to work fine. If you don't try to do something new how do you learn?. I just have never had a warning like that before. I usually use safari. xxxx |