Irish hacker from the west of Ireland.
Interests include: Linux, anything security, chilli peppers, Lego and cooking.
Irish hacker from the west of Ireland.
Interests include: Linux, anything security, chilli peppers, Lego and cooking.
Revisiting 2 of the 5 docs from the Snowden leaks that mention 'cookies'.
GCHQ 2009 on 'target detection identifiers':
https://snowden.glendon.yorku.ca/items/show/188/
NSA 2011 on 'selector types':
https://snowden.glendon.yorku.ca/items/show/172
...featuring cookie/browser IDs from Google/Doubleclick, Facebook, Microsoft and many more.
It's breathtaking how the surveillance marketing industry has still managed to claim for many years that unique personal identifiers processed in the web browser are 'anonymous', and sometimes still does.
It's that yearly moment where I reminisce about my Palm PDAs and Pocket PCs of old, and I realize that I actually miss the stupid Palm Graffiti alphabet as a stylus driven input method.
When you got good at it, you could jot down things shockingly quick. Unfortunately, It also ended up shaping my already weird and shitty handwriting into something weirder and shittier still.
I haven't been comfortable taking notes on anything not keyboard driven since.