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Name no names please. Don't want a witch hunt when we are in a glass house.

• deleted 14y ago
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• javajosh 14y ago
  Honestly, I don't understand this reluctance to name wrongdoers, especially for something like this where verifying the wrong is trivial (e.g. load up a client site and find the offending code in source). It seems to me that the harm is greater not naming names - reputation is important and if you take steps to invade user's privacy then your reputation can and should suffer for it.
  • baddox 14y ago
    "Witch hunt" generally refers to persecution of someone without any regard to whether they're innocent or guilty, so I presume the comment was intended to admonish against guessing which ad companies may be using this technique.
    • 3825 14y ago
      Yes. I am sorry I was not clearer.
• saraid216 14y ago
  My first thought on reading this was, "Ah. 3825 works for one of them."
  • 3825 14y ago
    Who are these ad companies is a question that addresses the wrong topic. VP for Internet Explorer effectively said[1] that the vulnerability in Internet Explorer would not be an issue if nobody exploited it. [1]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/12/13/update-to-alleged-information-and-security-issue-with-mouse-position-behavior.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/12/13/update-to-alle...