Thane Morgan wrote:
>
> L. Brian Hayes wrote:
> > So, do cookies bother you?
> I have a nagging suspicion that when it asks if I want a cookie that it
> is really asking do I want to erase my hard drive to the derisive
> laughter of a virus. I have no idea if this is a real threat though.
>
> ]Thane
Cookies are not a threat to your computer. Your privacy, maybe, in that
they do leave a trail as to where you have been. On the other hand,
only the domain that SET the cookie can read them. All they do read and
write to a file called "cookie.txt".
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Received on Fri Mar 20 1998 - 14:12:09 UTC