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Browser Spyware: Watching Where You Linger

Posted by timothy on from the matter-of-time dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Just when you you'd installed Junkbuster and thought it was safe to go back onto the web, the BBC runs this story which tells you that webshites will soon(?) be able to tell whether you are reading the page, what parts of it are of interest to you, etc. Guess we can expect porn sites to be the first to take advantage of this." Or perhaps someone else is already doing this, and hasn't told you.

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  1. Deus Ex by FortKnox · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or perhaps someone else is already doing this, and hasn't told you.

    Somebody was up late playing Deus Ex last night, right timothy??

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    Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
  2. "Cheese"? by Anoriymous+Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    The system developed by the team at MIT is called Cheese, since they are following the mouse, like a mouse follows cheese.

    Wouldn't a better title have been "Cat"? Or perhaps "Rodent Stalker"?