[2419] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: cookies and privacy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David W. Morris)
Tue Jul 16 23:25:47 1996
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 18:11:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: "David W. Morris" <dwm@shell.portal.com>
To: Hal <hfinney@jobe.shell.portal.com>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199607170023.RAA23424@jobe.shell.portal.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Tue, 16 Jul 1996, Hal wrote:
> himself part of a logical session without his consent, where the site is
> tracking the patterns of his access. In the case you describe, where the
> user is requesting some special access to the site, and providing
Perhaps a workable solution would be similar to the protection schemes
now being devised for rating content in terms of appropriateness for kids.
One dimension of rating could be that a site collects demographic data
about usage. If you don't want to collection, your browser would simply
block your access. The rating could even deal with exactly what is
collected and how it will be used. This would certainly be more workable
than having Browsers prompt the user re. each cookie to be stored.
Dave Morris
