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"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." I think that situation was probably just sloppy coding of some sort, not an intent
by pionar 13y ago
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
I think that situation was probably just sloppy coding of some sort, not an intentional act.
- generj 13y agoReflecting on the blogger sourced by Arstechnica, you are correct. The data is present in the URL (queryString) for the page, so there is nothing malicious about the analytics code, which is merely going about it's default of reporting the URL of the page. Returning that sort of data in a queryString is still far outside the realm of common sense.