OmniMedia got a good drudging through that mud over their 2o7.net domain. The domain is used to track statistics for their clients using session cookies. The trouble is up until recently the domain had no content and did not redirect anywhere when viewed with a browser. This lead many people to be suspicous when they were investigating the occurance of third party cookies.

The Wall Street Journal covered the event in detail. WSJ Article

The Wall Street Journal was quite fair and accurate in the description of third party cookies, their uses, and the threat assesment of them. Given the amount of hyper-sensativity to them do to misunderstanding of what they are used for I was refreshed to read a major newspaper give cookies a fair shake.

Filed under: News — Scott @ August 1, 2005 1:37 am

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