A co-worker just told me that anytime you look at a .gov page online it puts some sort of Ubercookie onto your computer that searches your computer and tracks you something fierce. Do any of you guys know about this? I imagine alot of you are more computer savvy than me (not hard). What's the true skinny?
I kind of doubt it. All a cookie does is hold some information (like a username and password, or preference information) for that particular website so you don't have to enter it again the next time you log on to that site. If they did load something that tracks anything, such as your browsing destinations or hard drive, then it would more properly classified as spyware.
I clean up a ton of spyware on client computers, and I've seen some pretty nasty stuff, but nothing like what you describe. It wouldn't surprise me all that much, but if they did, I'd imagine that all hell would break loose in the IT community, and there be a removal tool published on the web in about 36 hours.
Hard to keep something like that a secret.
