[2371] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Smart Fine Print
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Lehmann (SSASyd))
Tue Jul 9 23:28:40 1996
From: "John Lehmann (SSASyd)" <LEHMANNJ@saatchi.com.au>
To: "'www-security'" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 96 11:10:00 S
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
>
><much deleted>
ditto
>On a DOS/Windows machine it is easy to prevent cookies before they ever
>turn into dough. :)
>
>Just edit the cookies.txt file to be empty (or delete it and touch it),
>then set the read only attribute on the file. I wish I could say this is
>cleverly ingenious of me, but it is not. I picked it up from someone
>else, and it works. I went to doubleclick.net and ran around -- with
nary
>a cookie set. They may keep other info, but cookies seems rather
critical
>to their scheme.
>
>
> -- Michael
Interesting solution... There are some legitimate uses of cookies, of
course.
Another solution, noted by a previous writer, was that, if you are using
Netscape 3, one of the options in 'options/network preferences' is to
'show
an alert before accepting a cookie'
This does default to 'off', of course. This is perhaps morally dubious,
as most
people using the www are told that they are engaging in something as
private
as reading a magazine.
--
John J. Lehmann aka lehmannj@saatchi.com.au
Saatchi & Saatchi Australia, New Media
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