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    Red face White House & Natl Security Agency Did not know TRACKERS were on their Sites

    Unbeknown to the Bush administration, an outside contractor has been using Internet tracking technologies that may be prohibited to analyze usage and traffic patterns at the White House's Web site,
    The White House's Web site uses what's known as a Web bug to anonymously keep track of who's visiting and when. A Web bug is essentially a tiny graphic image - a dot, really - that's virtually invisible. In this case, the bug is pulled from a server maintained by WebTrends and lets the traffic analytic company know that another person has visited a specific page on the site.
    Nonetheless, agencies occasionally violate the rules inadvertently. The CIA did in 2002, and the NSA more recently. The NSA disabled the cookies this week and blamed a recent upgrade to software that shipped with cookie settings already on.
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051230/...hite_house_bug
    http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/busine..._House_Bug.htm

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    Gimme Fries with that!
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    lol cookie settings set to expire in 2035... yeah right im sure that was an accident.

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