[CodeToad]

This web page you are reading has a nasty tracking script: Google Analytics. Look at the bottom two lines of the BODY. They are:

<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">_uacct = "UA-2288668-1"; urchinTracker();</script>

Why is FR using a sophisticated tracking system that can geographically locate users? Or can track which other web sites they visit?

[Swordmaker]

Why is FR using a sophisticated tracking system that can geographically locate users? Or can track which other web sites they visit?

You will have to ask John Robinson that question. . . it is not my place to answer for FreeRepublic. Nor do i see what relevance it has in reference to this discussion from January about a proof of concept exploit that is not in the wild.