From: Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com>
Subject: Re: It's all like that
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:34:51 -0500
Date: 2002-12-23T15:34:51-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <MrKN9.2319$c6.2436@bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 60eYRwmpMYWp@eisner.encompasserve.org
> No, technical difficulty stands in their way, since there is
> a problem sharing information between totally disparate sessions
> run from the same computer. With cookies, such aggregation is
> not at all difficult for those with a Big Brother inclination.
Any string I can put in a cookie I can put in a URI.
I can use that string as a key into a database, and
if I collect any info from a surfer, I can find it
in the database and use the same string as part of
the URI I serve to them.
Sure, they can defeat it by clearing the cache
and surfing into my web site with a fresh session.
But they have the same protection if they just delete
the cookies.
As I said before, the only reason it's not done
is that cookies are easy, and they work for 98%
of the victims^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcustomers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-23 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-18 17:11 It's all like that Hyman Rosen
2002-12-18 17:25 ` sk
2002-12-18 18:16 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-12-19 1:17 ` Ted Dennison
2002-12-19 18:36 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-12-19 17:45 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-12-19 19:12 ` Pascal Obry
2002-12-21 18:05 ` faust
2002-12-21 12:04 ` Pascal Obry
2002-12-19 19:52 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-12-19 19:13 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-12-20 17:01 ` Pascal Obry
2002-12-20 18:08 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-12-20 18:27 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-12-27 22:41 ` Alexander Schreiber
2002-12-29 6:12 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-12-20 0:35 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-12-20 2:25 ` sk
2002-12-20 12:06 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-12-20 18:06 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-12-20 20:32 ` sk
2002-12-21 10:38 ` Baugereau
2002-12-21 11:59 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-12-21 15:19 ` Baugereau
2002-12-21 14:51 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-12-21 16:03 ` sk
2002-12-23 0:18 ` Baugereau
2002-12-23 0:59 ` sk
2002-12-23 13:35 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-23 14:09 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-12-23 20:34 ` Wes Groleau [this message]
2002-12-25 4:45 ` faust
2002-12-23 18:13 ` sk
2002-12-23 21:22 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-23 23:24 ` sk
2002-12-27 16:21 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-12-28 7:09 ` sk
2002-12-21 16:43 ` sk
2002-12-20 21:59 ` Florian Weimer
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