Allegedly, on or about 23 August 2016, Joe Zeff sent: > Assuming that somebody wanted to use DNS to set a cookie, how would > they go about it?
You browse half a dozen addresses, using their DNS server, they can see all the queries coming from your IP. Somewhere amongst them is a server where they can set a cookie in a browser. It becomes an anchor point for identifying you when there's a break between sessions (where you *may* change IPs), and the cycle continues. Since it's Google that we're talking about, the two obvious candidates for co-ordinating this are their DNS server and their search engine. But even if you don't use their search engine, they provide services to many other websites (googletag, googleanalytics, etc.), so you'll use them all over the place without noticing. Many websites that're more than flat HTML, and are too lazy to write their scripting, make use of these turnkey solutions for their problems. Databasing is Google's business, and they've stated their aim to database *everything* in the past. Don't believe that they've given up on that. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Just because nobody complains, it doesn't mean that all parachutes are perfect. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
