Reply #7: This ABC article is BS

[kay1864]

...as was the NPR piece I heard this morning. To wit:

"files on visitors' computers that can track their Web surfing activity"

WTF, I thought? That doesn't sound like the cookies I know.

And it isn't. I went to the explanation that Debau2005 provided (thanks!) and here's the reality:

"A Web site can retrieve only the information that it has placed on your machine (a text file). It cannot retrieve information from other cookie files, nor any other information from your machine". (emphasis mine)

So all the NSA cookie can do is track when you've visited the NSA website. Not your "web surfing activity".

Sheesh.