On the Whitehouse tracking website visitors

From Judicial Watch via Soylent Green:

A 9-year-old policy forbids the U.S. government from implementing methods on federal internet sites that track an internet user’s every click, often identify the person and even build a database of each user’s viewing habits. This poses a serious threat to Americans’ personal information, according to the Obama cheerleading squad better known as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

So the Whitehouse is going to start using tracking cookies. Where to start, where to start …

Look go read this and come back … I’ll wait.

Are we technologically caught up now ? Good. Yes, tracking cookies are “bad” but are they some insidious plot by the whackjobs in charge ? No, not really. Is it shitty behavior, yep, it is. But here’s the tip; your computer won’t accept cookies you don’t want to accept.

Better security tips can be had. At a minimum everyone should be running the latest Firefox browser with Ad Block Plus and No Script installed. People really need to stop treating their computer like a borrowed penis.