Apparently the contents of the "CD" included a web browser; nothing wrong with that you might think. Until someone was poking around and found some interesting cookies stored in there, including Brian O'(?)Carroll's Amazon preferences, and a few slightly shady ad banner cookies.
The problem has now been fixed, but it seemed like an amusing cautionary tale for a drab Monday morning. Remember to clean those cookies files boys and girls!
Source: NTK
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| (12:53 24/9/2001) gerph (13:41 24/9/2001) Jon Hall (14:05 24/9/2001) Richard Chiswell (14:38 24/9/2001) Richard Goodwin (14:46 24/9/2001) Richard Goodwin (14:47 24/9/2001) Richard Goodwin (14:52 24/9/2001) harmsy (17:02 24/9/2001) Steve knutson (20:15 24/9/2001) Jon Hall (21:10 24/9/2001) Jon Hall (21:15 24/9/2001) MyRISCOS (22:37 1/10/2001) |
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| Great Norah | Message #89152, posted at 12:53, 24/9/2001 |
| Unregistered user | so who is the dirty sod? |
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| gerph | Message #89153, posted at 13:41, 24/9/2001, in reply to message #89152 |
| Unregistered user | Remember, MP3 websites also contain quite numerous 'shady ads' on them, and I have certainly seen such things on otherwise quite normal sites. Even casual browsing can fill your cookies with numerous undesirables. It's a sad ole world, ain't it ? |
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| Jon Hall | Message #89154, posted at 14:05, 24/9/2001, in reply to message #89153 |
| Unregistered user | wots NTK? |
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| Richard Chiswell | Message #89155, posted at 14:38, 24/9/2001, in reply to message #89154 |
| Unregistered user | AFAIK, NTK is 'Need To Know' - well, according to http://www.acroynmfinder.com/ . It doesn't quite 'sound right' in this instance though... |
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| Richard Goodwin | Message #89156, posted at 14:46, 24/9/2001, in reply to message #89155 |
| Unregistered user | Click on the link to NTK (at the bottom of the story, on the main Icon Bar page, or if you're an ArgoNet subscriber from your Voyager default web page) and find out what NTK is! OK, it's basically a weekly news letter about UK technology 'n stuff, in a sarcastic stylee; it's written by people old-skool enough to know what an Acorn machine is, and has featured RISC OS related stories on occasion. |
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| Richard Goodwin | Message #89157, posted at 14:47, 24/9/2001, in reply to message #89156 |
| Unregistered user | OK, so the link under the article doesn't work. Damned automated scripts... ;) |
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| Richard Goodwin | Message #89158, posted at 14:52, 24/9/2001, in reply to message #89157 |
| Unregistered user | Now fixed (by hand, I'll have to look at the list of default sources) The URL is http://www.ntk.net/ The T-shirts are available from http://www.geekstyle.co.uk/ |
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| harmsy | Message #89159, posted at 17:02, 24/9/2001, in reply to message #89158 |
| Unregistered user | NTK is bannd over our system, so I'm missing out. A rather entertaining tale though! |
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| Steve knutson | Message #89160, posted at 20:15, 24/9/2001, in reply to message #89159 |
| Unregistered user | Perhaps they were researching for a new "sealed section" to boost sales ;-) |
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| Jon Hall | Message #89161, posted at 21:10, 24/9/2001, in reply to message #89160 |
| Unregistered user | Oh righty - that's the one link on the Voyager homepage that I have never clicked on before - dunno why. |
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| Jon Hall | Message #89162, posted at 21:15, 24/9/2001, in reply to message #89161 |
| Unregistered user | Those T Shirts are most excellent - love the Elite one:) |
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| MyRISCOS | Message #89163, posted at 22:37, 1/10/2001, in reply to message #89162 |
| Unregistered user | Of course if you missed it on the website, then CD 14, that went out with the mag, had the stuff in full setup! Duh! |
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