[2360] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Smart Fine Print
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Cronin)
Tue Jul 9 12:15:20 1996
From: John Cronin <John.Cronin@oit.gatech.edu>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 10:04:25 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.94.960709001720.9339m-100000@ns1.fni.com> from "Michael Brennen" at Jul 9, 96 00:24:35 am
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
With all this fuss about cookies, what is the real purpose of them.
I could make my cookies file read only (will Netscape try to change
permissions on it to "help me" - in that case, I could chown it to
root after doing so). The question is, what am I giving up if I do
this? I have already turned off Java and Javascript for security
reasons, and it doesn't seem to make a big impact on my browsing.
John
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