As you might have seen from the homepage, I used to work in IT security, I also avidly follow security bulletins and news, so I like to think I'm pretty well-versed in how the internet works and how exceptionally poor our level of online privacy really is.

About conditional comments

Conditional comments in Internet Explorer 7 are a way to ensure only IE or non-IE browsers parse certain parts of a page. This is mostly used to include CSS compatibility hacks by way of a <link> element in the page header, but they can in fact wrap any amount of HTML anywhere in the document.