From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,aeb51c4713246b4c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-23 12:34:52 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: It's all like that References: <1040231512.158234@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <60eYRwmpMYWp@eisner.encompasserve.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:34:51 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.133.155 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1040675692 151.168.133.155 (Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:34:52 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:34:52 EST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32255 Date: 2002-12-23T15:34:51-05:00 List-Id: > 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