{"id":5435,"date":"2012-06-24T19:05:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T00:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=5435"},"modified":"2012-06-24T19:09:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T00:09:28","slug":"privacy-schmivacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=5435","title":{"rendered":"Privacy, Schmivacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Drudge has an interesting story about Condi Rice out at a big gathering of Republican Establishment types, probably making her pitch to be the Romney’s VP nominee, but this isn’t about that.<\/p>\n

Because of the chronic problem I have with poorly maintained (or abandoned) web sites attempting to infect visitors, I do most of my browsing now with Firefox and an addin called NoScript<\/p>\n

http:\/\/noscript.net\/<\/p>\n

It looks very deep into what web sites are doing and blocks attempts to do sneaky things – the most common being what are called “Cross Site Scripting” attacks.\u00a0\u00a0 They come in lots of flavors, but the general idea is that you visit\u00a0 acme123.com’s web site, and either because they were hacked or fooled, or perhaps on purpose, a script on\u00a0 weRHackerz.com.ru tries to run, possibly because you have acme123.com in your “trusted” zone.<\/p>\n

So I clicked on the link, which is nothing but a link to news.yahoo.com (what follows is not Matt Drudge’s “fault”…\u00a0\u00a0 I hear the “Alert” sound NoScript has blocked something\u00a0 -which usually gives me a detailed description of what was blocked and why – but the screen immediately switches to the news story so I couldn’t see the warning being reported and act on it.<\/p>\n

After maybe a half dozen retries, I was able to get a screen capture:<\/p>\n

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What it is telling me – clicking on that link, fired off 34 different scripts, most are companies I recognize as being in the tracking business for advertisers.\u00a0\u00a0 NoScript allows 29 of 34 scripts to run, and blocked the remaining 5 as suspicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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