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News flash: NSA Web Site Puts 'Cookies' on Computers

2005-12-29

In which the Associated Press tries to wrap its tiny little brain around this whole "InterWeb" phenomenon...also a not-quite-backhanded slap at "a spy agency already on the defensive amid reports of a secretive eavesdropping program in the United States."

Rantburg, of course, also uses cookies. I put them on so you can download them to your machines at home and at work. When you're not looking, they crawl out of the machines and root through your underwear drawers and steal your liquor. NSA's do the same thing, but they're not as slick as Rantburg cookies.

Posted by:Seafarious

#20 No, .com, I don't think it's that. I'd take time to explain, but I have to do some paperwork for this guy in Nigeria who's gonna send me lots of money.

Posted by: Phil 2005-12-29 17:33

#19 Heh, Phil... we don't know what the nefarious Mods do with the troll info...

I'm thinking it's:

What happens in the RB Control Center, stays in the RBCC, except for all those nifty email lists they suddenly find themselves subscribed to...

Posted by: .com 2005-12-29 17:20

#18 If the NSA were yet another branch of Rantburg, wouldn't we have better troll control?

Posted by: Phil 2005-12-29 17:16

#17 NSA has cookies, Rantburg has cookies.

Coincidence? I think not!

Didn't you always just *know* that RB was a shadowy NSA front organization?

Posted by: Seafarious 2005-12-29 17:09

#16 They have a word for this symptom, I think it is âParanoid Delusionalâ and it fits just about EVERYONE on the left. BTW I want my Snoopy boxers back PRONTO!

Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2005-12-29 17:06

#15 :>

Posted by: HalfEmpty 2005-12-29 17:04

#14 In the UK, they're called tracking bisquets...

Posted by: mojo 2005-12-29 16:51

#13 Course I don'[t know how. I think I may have stepped on a NSA cookies last nite late in the hall, it was slow and mush. Like a diseased cockroach.

When you're not looking, they crawl out of the machines and root through your underwear drawers and steal your liquor. NSA's do the same thing, but they're not as slick as Rantburg cookies.

Posted by: Leon Clavin 2005-12-29 15:41

#12 When you're not looking, they crawl out of the machines and root through your underwear drawers and steal your liquor. NSA's do the same thing, but they're not as slick as Rantburg cookies.
Do tell! I guess I need to apologize to Chris.

I'd love to google bomb this thread. :>

Posted by: Leon Clavin 2005-12-29 15:40

#11 The Gremlins in my computer are warring with your cookies. I went to the great Oracle, Bill Gates, for guidance but he said the UN was taking over the internet and it was their problem. So I went to the self proclaimed father of the internet, Al âI built itâ Gore, and he said cookies were a right wing evil that Bush is secretly sneaking into our computers in an effort the keep the truth seeking Gremlins down. I went to the UN and they informed me I had to not only pay for their help but I also had to pay a 30% kofi tax. When I went to the government for help the NYT sued me claiming I was infringing on their 1st amendment rights. When I sent in the Cookie Monster, Amnesty international sued me in the world court for human rights violations. Taking my cue from Columbia and the Philippines I offered the renegade cookies their own spot in the computer safe from attack and off limits to the Gremlins. The gremlins are trying their best to no to enter the cookieâs files but the cookies are getting stronger and stronger. Pretty soon the computer will slow to a stall because there are too many cookies in the file and they are too taxing on the computerâs resources. But when those Damn cookies snuck out of their safe area at night and drank all my JD and Coke, well that was the last straw and I envoked executive powers and hit the delete cookies button!

Posted by: 49 pan 2005-12-29 13:30

#10 Fred, if one of those damn cookies gets into my Sauza.....

Posted by: Desert Blondie 2005-12-29 11:50

#9 Double standards at it's best. So it's alright for all of these spammers to use cookies, but not our government. GEEEZ.
Now regarding my underwear drawer, thanks for the tip, I'll have to change my hiding place for my bourbon. heh.

Posted by: Jan 2005-12-29 10:03

#8 The cats ate my cookies at home, I think. Otherwise, why was I Urmshorn Grimspot when I tried to comment last night?

BTW, my cookies are on a number of computers in Washington and Ft. Bragg. Including NSA, or at least that's what the URL comes back as.

Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2005-12-29 09:50

#7 Anyone ever tossed one of Fred's cookies?
** rimshot **

Posted by: badanov 2005-12-29 09:11

#6 Fred, I want my missing socks back -- right now!

Posted by: Darrell 2005-12-29 07:58

#5 my 'puter has been probed by Rantburg tracking cookies

/dare i ask which mod

Posted by: Deviced Unegum3498 2005-12-29 05:06

#4 they crawl out of the machines and root through your underwear drawers and steal your liquor

That explains a lot. Thanks!

Posted by: Hupearong Ebbanter3918 2005-12-29 02:44

#3 Cookies yum.

To bad reported are like 90% dumber than the average turd. The sites that carry AP put cookies on you machine too. But they don't tell the reporters that stuff. If I dumped my cookies I prolly would be screwed. It's been years since I have. They do useful thing like keep me logged in, keep me "trusted" along with other stuff. I must be fun to track as if they do that. heheheh

Posted by: Mahou Sensei Negi-bozu 2005-12-29 01:55

#2 There is a "discuss" link at the bottom of the story. As expected, the comments are largely the mindless ejaculate of the paranoid, perverse, and ignorant.

Pet peeve: Every moron commercial that advertises a URL tell you to "logon at ...". Duh. Surf to, perhaps, but logon? LOL. It's a Luddite world.

Posted by: .com 2005-12-29 01:17

#1 Pretty funny.

Posted by: phil_b 2005-12-29 01:00

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