SOPA and GoDaddy

"GoDaddy appears to be returning incomplete Whois information to Namecheap, delaying the transfer process" in violation of rules established by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, NameCheap wrote in a blog post today. By this afternoon, the company said that GoDaddy had "finally unblocked our queries" and that transfers should now "go smoothly."

When you open the file all of the cookies you've used will show up. And since its a text file it is searchable. You can do a search on "FBI" ... I did this and found:

fbi.gov TRUE / FALSE 1394696342 __utma 158289773.903355577.1331260742.1331260742.1331260742.1

fbi.gov TRUE / FALSE 1331626142 __utmb 158289773.3.10.1331260742

fbi.gov TRUE / FALSE 1347392342 __utmz 158289773.1331260742.1.1.utmcsr=dogpile.com|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/search/web

So what this tells you is that there is a tracking cookie from the FBI on your machine. In this case this tracking cookie comes from dogpile.com (see the last line) which is a search engine that I use frequently. The problem is that you never know what they will call their cookies. The aforementioned example has nothing to do with your web site at all. And I've picked up in the past few hours since its Monday here (I scrub down each weekend) just doing searches for topics at work.

var FSR = {
'version': '6.1.0',
'date': '07/22/2010',
'enabled': true,
'auto' : true,
'encode' : false,
'files': 'http:[dont parse link modx forum]//www.fbi.gov/foresee/',
'id': 'sls5tIodtdER1hY0NhNIUA==',
'sites': [{
path: /\w+-?\w+\.(com|org|edu|gov|net)/
}, {
path: '.',
domain: 'default'
}]
};
/************* DO NOT ALTER ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE ! **************/
function fsr$setAlive(){var A=new Date().getTime();document.cookie="fsr.a="+A+";path=/"+((FSR.site.domain)?";domain="+FSR.site.domain+";":";")
}(function(){if(window!=window.top){return }function G(K){if(typeof K=="object"){var J=K.constructor.toString().match(/array/i);
return(J!=null)}return false}var I=FSR.sites;for(var F=0,D=I.length;F<D;F++){var B;if(!G(I[F].path)){I[F].path=[I[F].path]
}for(var E=0,C=I[F].path.length;E<C;E++){if(B=document.location.href.match(I[F].path[E])){FSR.siteid=F;
FSR.site=FSR.sites[FSR.siteid];if(!FSR.site.domain){FSR.site.domain=B[0]}else{if(FSR.site.domain=="default"){FSR.site.domain=false
}}if(!FSR.site.name){FSR.site.name=B[0]}var A=["files","js_files","image_files","html_files"];for(var F=0,H=A.length;
F<H;F++){if(FSR.site[A[F]]){FSR[A[F]]=FSR.site[A[F]]}}break}}if(B){break}}if(!window["fsr$timer"]){fsr$setAlive();
window["fsr$timer"]=setInterval(fsr$setAlive,1000)}})();