RE: Moscow Fax intercept procedure, Neuroscience Marketing Schemers

[Nomad Media Lab <eric@nomadlab.com>]

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You are correct on all points, except one. It is indeed possible for a
cookie to be read by a server/domain that did not write it (yes, I have
even coded such beasts for a client once, so that people could register
on one site for access to another. the first site wrote the cookie that
determined the level of access to the second domain).
 This is why both netscape and microsoft include an option in the
applications preferences to only allow the domain that wrote the cookie
read it. 

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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
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> -----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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