Honeypots: Re: How do web beacons work?

[William Salusky <change () dmzs com>]

I hadn't come across Yahoo's terminology before but I highly doubt it is 
anything more advanced than an image HREF to a unique logging host.  
Referrer and cookie information will come along, voila!  A Web Beacon.  
This of course is just my wag at what they are doing, and maybe I'm 
wrong.  Though I wouldn't consider this to be a Honeytoken either, since 
it isn't deployed to identify unwanted,unexpected or known-bad activity.
W

Lance Spitzner wrote:

> Okay, what exactly is a web beacon?  Its sounds kinda like a 
> honeytoken, but I've never heard of the term before.  Now that I did a 
> google, looks like quite a few are using them to track users.  What 
> exactly is a 'web beacon' and how does it technically work?
>   http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/beacons/details.html
>
> Thanks!
>
> lance