- From: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 20:54:40 -0500
- To: "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
Wondering if this is of interest to the TAG [1,2,3]? The claim is that Verizon Wireless (and earlier also AT&T) is injecting tracking information into mobile users' Web traffic, and that an ad agency is using that to reconstruct deleted cookies. Also wondering whether, apropos the recent debates about moving to HTTPS, companies like Verizon would be able to MITM HTTPs traffic to play games like this. Seems to depend on the cert control provided by mobile browsers, and I'm concerned that in practice many of the browsers come from the ISPs, which supply the phones, which check the certs.... Noah [1] http://www.itworld.com/article/2871195/cleared-your-browser-cookies-it-wont-stop-ad-company-using-verizon-tracking-header.html [2] http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/01/15/205215/ad-company-using-verizon-tracking-header-to-recreate-deleted-cookies [3] http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20140425-column.html
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