By the way, don't forget that facebook's "like" buttons may on some indelicate websites take the form of a 'play' button under a catchy video, resulting in embarrassing posts on your facebook wall (don't ask me how i became aware of that). Put together with the fact that your browser history may be queried by any website, as the following one gives the funny demonstration: http://didyouwatchporn.com/ you may become a bit self-conscious while clicking anything anywhere :) (Note that this has nothing to do with Peter's relevant advice, but the title, 'URL security') _ Christophe Prieur, prieur@liafa.fr Liafa, Université Paris-Diderot http://liafa.fr/~prieur/ [user experience research, social networks, (large) graph algorithms] Le 14 mars 2011 à 00:51, Peter Timusk a écrit :
Thanks I am exploring this book and related books now on Amazon.
Just a note about net security and sharing links on Amazon and other web sites. You only needed this much of your URL
http://www.amazon.com/Who-Controls-Internet-Illusions-Borderless/dp/01953406 47/
not this
http://www.amazon.com/Who-Controls-Internet-Illusions-Borderless/dp/01953406 47/ref=tmm_pap_title_0
To add the extra part afterwards can sometimes be a security risk if there are codes when you are logged into Amazon that could allow others access to your account because of the coded information. It may never happen with Amazon for all I know I just also know that some of these extra codes are tracking information used by the web site to watch you web surfing path on their web site.
Peter Timusk at571@ncf.ca ptimusk@sympatico.ca web: www.crystalcomputing.net blogs www.cyborgcitizen.org