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[IP] -- getting confusedmore on the experiment on ****yet***** Another new Google twist..



I am getting confused. There seems to be at least one person who did not know about the experiment being performed on that person by , I assume, permission of the site.

So what is the experiment, what data is being gathered etc.

Dave



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From: Joe Touch <touch@xxxxxxx>
Date: January 10, 2006 11:34:19 AM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] more on the experiment on ****yet***** Another new Google twist..

Dave,

This seems to be twisted around - the experiment is being conducted by
the sites participating in Coral. There's little difference between that
and a site that pays Akamai for caching - either way, there appears to
be spurious traffic to unexpected places, and in both cases the site is
the one making the decision (as it could, e.g., to redirect). That's the
right of the site owner, regardless.

Joe

David Farber wrote:

-----Original Message-----
From: "Robert Alberti" <alberti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 1/10/06 08:17
Subject: Re: [IP] more on the experiment on ****yet***** Another new Google twist..

Now, I'm not an ethicist or anything, but isn't it usually the case that
you tell somebody if you're going to experiment on them BEFORE you
notice them doing so?

Robert Alberti, CISSP, ISSMP
alberti@xxxxxxxxxxxx

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 07:55 -0500, David Farber wrote:
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From: Rob Knauerhase <knauer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: January 9, 2006 8:52:32 PM EST
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] more on ****yet***** Another new Google twist..

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 08:42:27PM -0500, David Farber wrote:
Begin forwarded message:
From: Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

But wait, there's more. I have also been noticing seemingly random
but frequent attempts to trigger firefox connections to various
planetlabs machines (http://www.planet-lab.org/) as a result of
Google searches. I think it is admirable that Google is supporting
the research world but were it not for my "littleSnitch" application,
I would have had no idea.

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