[2442] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: cookies and privacy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A. Lentz)
Wed Jul 17 21:01:21 1996
From: "Robert A. Lentz" <lentz@annie.astro.nwu.edu>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 13:04:53 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <9607161658.AA12025@zp> from "Dave Kristol" at Jul 16, 96 12:58:57 pm
Reply-To: lentz@annie.astro.nwu.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Dave Kristol wrote:
> ...
> Perhaps you want your browser vendor to give you an option that says,
> "Never allow a session to begin, except for requests I initiate." If
> that's the case, beat on your vendor.
Yes, this is up to the vendors. But suggestions in an "implementor's guide"
would be nice.
Interesting how companies that portray themselves as pro-privacy (clipper...)
will conspire with commercial interests to spy on people.
How long before the EFF takes up the cookie privacy cause?
-Robert
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