Here's an issue I imagine will be of interest to many who read this site, as I recall many of the passionate discussions in the past of cookies, security and privacy issues. Activists charge DoubleClick double cross is a USA Today story detailing how DoubleClick's recent acquisition of Abacus Direct Corp. has provided them with the opportunity to turn cookies left in your browser into breadcrumbs (as in Hansel and Gretel) to track your movements and purchases across the World Wide Web. Thanks Jamie Wood. This is likely not the last we'll hear of this, as word in the article is a complaint will be filed next month with the Federal Trade Commission by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. In the meantime, DoubleClick assures users unhappy with this that they can opt out from their tracking program, which you can apparently do by clicking this DoubleClick Privacy link. Interesting stuff. As always, if you opt to use cookies for our messageboards, we promise not to do anything with them but help you save your settings.

Link of the Day: Treasury of Geriatric Erotica. Thanks ChiQ.
Story of the Day: DeCSS Author Arrested, on Slashdot (one of many /. threads on the subject). Suggested by Jimmy Sieben as a follow-up to yesterday's link to a news article on the subject, pointing it is of "great importance in the coming digital age," and suggested the Slashdot forums provided word from all sides of the issue, which is more complex than the simple "cracking" story suggests.