Author: Tina Long
Date: 16:53:59 03/24/00
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On March 24, 2000 at 07:09:34, Shep wrote: >On March 24, 2000 at 06:15:29, Tina Long wrote: > >> >>I have been on the net for 15 minutes and 11 (eleven!!) places I have never been >>have tried to place Cookies in my computer. Club Kasparov also tried to place a >>cookie. >> >>Call me naive, I'd never heard of cookies until today, and I'm amazed & >>disgusted. I've never heard of these companies or websites & they're planting >>"listening devices" in my computer. > >Don't be too paranoid. Cookies are no "listening devices" of any kind (i.e. you >cannot compare them to installed software which makes connections to other >websites on its own). >Typically they are used to identify a client during a session on a website or to >re-identify a recurrent visitor of a site. Except for occasional browser bugs, >it is not possible for a site to read cookies set by another site (even if the >other site resides on the same machine, as long as the domain name is >different). Thanks Shep, I am now understanding better, and maybe I was overreacting, but a message such as: Woof Woof (the guard-dog beeper) "TeenXXX.com is trying to place a Cookie on your computer. You have never visited this site." upset & scared me, especially after several of them barked at me. If CCC or GambitSoft etc have cookies that tell them I'm a customer etc, that's fine by me. It's anonymous stuff I fear, if they can plant cookies just because I'm attached to the internet, then what else can they plant? If I get some advertising searching bug from freeware I've downloaded, then shame on them, but it's my risk in the downloading. Thanks again, Tina Long >Sometimes an incorrectly configured webserver sets cookies as well, e.g. a >cookie named EGSOFT_ID typically comes from Microsoft's IIS, or WEBTRENDS_ID (as >set by clubkasparov.com) is set to allow WebTrends (a tool producing statistics >on hits on a website) to produce a more detailed report, e.g. to distinguish a >session (one user visiting the site and viewing 20 pages) from 20 page hits by >20 individual users etc. > >There's just as many "myths" about cookies as there are about Javascript. Most >of them are pure exaggeration. >Being an online developer, I may be biased in favour of cookies, though. :) > >--- >Shep
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