[Fwd: Doubleclick]

[Seth I. Rich]

> >> > >If you're like me, you never went to a site called "doubleclick."  
> >> > >So how did they give you a cookie?  After all, the idea of the 
> >> > >cookie, according to the specs published by Netscape, is to make a 
> >> > >more efficient connection between the server the delivers the 
> >> > >cookie and the client machine which receives it. 
> >> > >But we have never connected to "doubleclick." 

You probably loaded a banner ad from doubleclick -- and downloading the
inline image from their site is sufficient for the cookie transfer to
take place.

Seth
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