J. Michael Looney wrote:
>
> 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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OK, you seem to know what they are. Why use them? what do they do that
couldn't already be done?
Thane
Received on Fri Mar 20 1998 - 16:15:42 UTC