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NSA Turns Cookies (And More) Into Surveillance Beacons
Kamdar, Adi; Reitman, Rainey; Schoen, Seth
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/nsa-turns-cookies-and-more-surveillance-beaconsDate Written: 2013-12-11 Publisher: Electronic Frontier Foundation Year Published: 2013 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX15513 These Google cookies - known as 'PREF' cookies - last two years and can uniquely identify you. The NSA is using this to enable remote exploitation (hacking into people’s computers) - an act aided by the ability to uniquely identify individuals on the Internet. Subject Headings |