All the article says is that Windows Media Player does a CDDB lookup when it plays a CD, and caches the result. If you look in your home directory on your Linux box, you'll probably find a similar cache. Someone just noticed that you can reconstruct people's listening habits from their CDDB lookups - no big deal.
All the article says is that Windows Media Player does a CDDB lookup when it plays a CD, and caches the result.
If you look in your home directory on your Linux box, you'll probably find a similar cache.
Someone just noticed that you can reconstruct people's listening habits from their CDDB lookups - no big deal.
There's a research project called Detour at the University of Washington to look into fixing this kind of thing.
s /I EEEMicro99.pdf
The only working link I can find right now is
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/savage/paper