RE: Moscow Fax intercept procedure, Neuroscience Marketing Schemers

[Elliott Roberts <ERoberts@apclink.com>]

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You're exactly right. Cookies CANNOT read anything from your hard drive. As
a matter of fact, the browser companies go to GREAT lengths to make sure
this is true. A web site can only read cookies from the same domain that
wrote them in the first place. This goes so far as to include the fact that
a cookie written at www.espn.com can't be read by a page at espn.com without
the www. I know firsthand from writing the code that tries to do it.

Sorry, cookies aren't all they're cracked up to be. Now, net bios will often
surrender your user name to anyone who asks, but that's a whole other story
altogether...

Elliott Roberts
Internet/Web Developer
Affiliated Paper Companies

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Crowley [mailto:turmoil@hemp.net]
Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 10:52 AM
To: hacktivism@tao.ca
Subject: Re: Moscow Fax intercept procedure, Neuroscience Marketing
Schemers


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> Now...almost Every comercial site has cookies
> they stick ya with.{shudder} These little gems
> read everything from soup to nutz on yer hard
> drive and relay it back to them,weather you visit
> them again or not. 


Really?  My understanding was that this is untrue. Would you like to show
some evidence for your claim? Exactly what info does a coookie read from
your hard drive and relay back to them???





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