[Air-L] URL security and sharing links RE: Internet history textbook

[Christophe Prieur]

By the way, don't forget that facebook's "like" buttons may on some indelicate websites take the form of a 'play' button under a catchy video, resulting in embarrassing posts on your facebook wall (don't ask me how i became aware of that).

Put together with the fact that your browser history may be queried by any website, as the following one gives the funny demonstration:
http://didyouwatchporn.com/
you may become a bit self-conscious while clicking anything anywhere :)

(Note that this has nothing to do with Peter's relevant advice, but the title, 'URL security')
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  Christophe Prieur,                                               prieur at liafa.fr
  Liafa, Université Paris-Diderot                           http://liafa.fr/~prieur/
  [user experience research, social networks, (large) graph algorithms]




Le 14 mars 2011 à 00:51, Peter Timusk a écrit :

> Thanks I am exploring this book and related books now on Amazon. 
> 
> Just a note about net security and sharing links on Amazon and other web
> sites. You only needed this much of your URL
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/Who-Controls-Internet-Illusions-Borderless/dp/01953406
> 47/
> 
> not this
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/Who-Controls-Internet-Illusions-Borderless/dp/01953406
> 47/ref=tmm_pap_title_0
> 
> 
> To add the extra part afterwards can sometimes be a security risk if there
> are codes when you are logged into Amazon that could allow others access to
> your account because of the coded information. It may never happen with
> Amazon for all I know I just also know that some of these extra codes are
> tracking information used by the web site to watch you web surfing path on
> their web site.
> 
> Peter Timusk
> at571 at ncf.ca
> ptimusk at sympatico.ca
> web: www.crystalcomputing.net
> blogs www.cyborgcitizen.org
>