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RE: Sensitive Accounts Cookie

Released on 2013-11-15 00:00 GMT

Email-ID 3462948 Date 2005-03-14 23:55:23 From jones@stratfor.com To mooney@stratfor.com, nimesh@vincera.com, puru@vincera.com

That is correct, XXX will be the login ID for the account. IP accounts

will use the IP address instead of the login name.

Alex Jones

Phone: 512-744-4080

Fax: 512-744-4334

Email: jones@stratfor.com

Strategic Forecasting, Inc

www.stratfor.com

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About Stratfor

Stratfor is a private intelligence firm providing corporations,

governments and individuals with geopolitical analysis and forecasts that

enable them to manage risk and to anticipate political, economic and

security issues vital to their interests. Stratfor’s clients, who include

Fortune 500 companies and major government agencies, use Stratfor as a

unique risk-analysis tool to protect assets, diminish risk, compete in the

market, and increase opportunities.

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From: Puru Agrawal [mailto:puru@vincera.com]

Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 4:48 PM

To: Nimesh Porbandarwalla; Alex Jones

Cc: Michael Mooney

Subject: RE: Sensitive Accounts Cookie

XXX will be the login id for the account, right?

It is important that for returning visitors, we see the same value as we

would see if they were logging in, which let’s us match their activity to

their “external id” – their login. Of course, we don’t want the cookie to

contain their password.

This way, we can use the same user / account matching criteria for when

they physically log in as well as when they are simply recognized by the

system as a returning user.

For IP accounts, the value can just be their IP address, since we’ll never

see them “log in” per se.

Puru Agrawal

Phone: 512.694.5346

Fax: 512.443.9326

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From: Nimesh Porbandarwalla

Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 4:09 PM

To: Alex Jones; Puru Agrawal

Cc: ‘Michael Mooney’; ‘Jim Warren’

Subject: RE: Sensitive Accounts Cookie

Thanks Alex

Nimesh Porbandarwalla

Phone: 512 443-8749 Ext 107

Email: nimesh@vincera.com

Vincera Inc.

Customer Touch @ Your Fingertip

www.vincera.com

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From: Alex Jones [mailto:jones@stratfor.com]

Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 4:07 PM

To: Nimesh Porbandarwalla; Puru Agrawal

Cc: ‘Michael Mooney’; ‘Jim Warren’

Subject: RE: Sensitive Accounts Cookie

Sure thing. It will be

Name: Stratfor[Account]

Value: XXX

With XXX being the name of the account.

Alex Jones

Phone: 512-744-4080

Fax: 512-744-4334

Email: jones@stratfor.com

Strategic Forecasting, Inc

www.stratfor.com

……………………………………

About Stratfor

Stratfor is a private intelligence firm providing corporations,

governments and individuals with geopolitical analysis and forecasts that

enable them to manage risk and to anticipate political, economic and

security issues vital to their interests. Stratfor’s clients, who include

Fortune 500 companies and major government agencies, use Stratfor as a

unique risk-analysis tool to protect assets, diminish risk, compete in the

market, and increase opportunities.

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From: Nimesh Porbandarwalla [mailto:nimesh@vincera.com]

Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 12:12 PM

To: Alex Jones; Puru Agrawal

Cc: Michael Mooney; Jim Warren

Subject: RE: Sensitive Accounts Cookie

Hi Alex

Thanks for sending us information about the sensitive accounts cookie,

could you similarly send us the information about the IP authentication

successful login cookie on the .biz website so that we can finish the

model for capturing usage on your websites.

Thanks

Nimesh Porbandarwalla

Phone: 512 443-8749 Ext 107

Email: nimesh@vincera.com

Vincera Inc.

Customer Touch @ Your Fingertip

www.vincera.com

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From: Alex Jones [mailto:jones@stratfor.com]

Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 10:02 AM

To: Puru Agrawal; Nimesh Porbandarwalla

Cc: ‘Michael Mooney’; Jim Warren

Subject: Sensitive Accounts Cookie

I will set a cookie with the following values for accounts that should not

be tracked by Vincera:

Name: Stratfor[Track]

Value: No

Alex Jones

Phone: 512-744-4080

Fax: 512-744-4334

Email: jones@stratfor.com

Strategic Forecasting, Inc

www.stratfor.com

……………………………………

About Stratfor

Stratfor is a private intelligence firm providing corporations,

governments and individuals with geopolitical analysis and forecasts that

enable them to manage risk and to anticipate political, economic and

security issues vital to their interests. Stratfor’s clients, who include

Fortune 500 companies and major government agencies, use Stratfor as a

unique risk-analysis tool to protect assets, diminish risk, compete in the

market, and increase opportunities.

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From: Puru Agrawal [mailto:puru@vincera.com]

Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 5:09 PM

To: Alex Jones; Nimesh Porbandarwalla

Cc: Michael Mooney

Subject: RE: Weekly Status Report

Hello Alex,

We can go ahead and deploy the system without the complete list … if we

can know what the cookie value or url parameter is that tells us to ignore

the activity for a certain visitor. In fact, we don’t ever need to see

the list of which companies to ignore.

Also, if we have access to the database, we can generate the list of

database fields.

Puru Agrawal

Phone: 512.694.5346

Fax: 512.443.9326

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From: Alex Jones [mailto:jones@stratfor.com]

Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 4:46 PM

To: ‘Jim Warren’; Nimesh Porbandarwalla; Puru Agrawal

Cc: ‘Michael Mooney’

Subject: RE: Weekly Status Report

Just a few quick notes regarding Nimesh’s status report, I’ve placed my

comments below the different points in blue.

—–Original Message—–

From: Nimesh Porbandarwalla [mailto:nimesh@vincera.com]

Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 2:43 PM

To: Jim Warren

Cc: Puru Agrawal

Subject: Weekly Status Report

Hi Jim

Below is this week’s status report that previously I had been sending to

Victoria

Pilot Status:

1. We are waiting on Alex to finish implementing cookie changes for IP

authentication on the .biz website.

At this point I am awaiting a comprehensive list of the user IDs

associated with each of the 430+ IP Blocks. As this is an extensive list I

may not receive it until end of day Tuesday. Is there any reason that this

is a showstopper for set up?

2. We are waiting on Alex to finish implementing cookie changes for

ignoring sensitive accounts.

This will be available at the same time as the above cookie

implementation.

3. We are waiting on Alex to provide us with the database fields for the

new premium website so that we can capture the appropriate fields from

the database.

I was under the impression that your gaining access to the database would

allow you to choose which fields to pull. I will gather a list for you by

Monday.

4. We are waiting on Michael to provide us with login(s) to your

databases so that we can get a data feed of the appropriate fields,

this item is dependent upon item 3.

5. We have nearly completed building the model for your website and our

awaiting for items 1, 2, 3 and 4 to have the model completely

finished.

6. Alex and Wes [Vincera] need to decide an hour slot to do a test run of

our filter deployment on your test box located at Stratfor.

That should be Michael and Wes

7. Wes has sent to Michael the filter files for the Apache module on

Monday and we our waiting for Michael to compile the filter file and

make sure that the filters compile successfully.

8. Michael is planning to do the deployment of your new equipment –

firewall, racks etc Saturday, March 12th.

9. Our new equipment has arrived and we are in the process of installing

our software on these servers, we can be ready to deploy at your

co-location as early as Sunday, March 13th dependent upon items 6, 7

and 8.

Issues & Concerns:

We had planned to be deployed and started collecting usage data on your

websites by this weekend (Sunday, March 13th). Due to delay in the items

(1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8) listed above we will probably deploy and start

collecting data sometime this next week (Tuesday, March 15th – Sunday,

March 20th). As we have to collect data for a minimum of 7-10 days we will

not have reports available to you till (Wednesday, March 23rd – Monday,

March 28th) depending upon when the item listed above get completed and we

deploy and start collecting usage data.

If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to email or

call me.

Thanks

Nimesh Porbandarwalla

Phone: 512 443-8749 Ext 107

Email: nimesh@vincera.com

Vincera Inc.

Customer Touch @ Your Fingertip

www.vincera.com