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NYT tells about the cookie campaign.

Session-only cookies are allowed according to OMB rules, but not persistent cookies unless there is a compelling need. "Oops!" an NSA spokesperson said.

It makes you almost afraid to blog about it, doesn't it?

The CIA was sniffing around for my college records some 8-9 years after I graduated, I learned through a grapevine. The university registrar wouldn't cooperate, which I thought was cool. I never could think why I might have been considered any sort of threat, unless it was that Chinese magazine I subscribed to for a short time in the early 70s.

I used to go out with a guy who had a sort of macho gauge for activism: the number of pages in your FBI file. His ran to over 100, since he was editor of a college paper at one of those institutions where anti-warriors burned down the ROTC building, didn't merely occupy it as they did at my tamer alma mater. I definitely consider myself, at 51, to be in that generation, but I always wished I'd been born just a few years earlier rather than bringing up the rear of that era. Guys my age were the very last of the draft.