[2458] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: cookies and privacy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Rose)
Thu Jul 18 13:20:25 1996
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 08:12:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jacob Rose <jacob@whiteshell.com>
To: Joe Andrieu <andrieu@association.org>
Cc: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>, dmk@allegra.att.com,
www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <31EBE177.44E7@association.org>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> I want a screen in my browser that lets me view all the cookies given to me,
> with a listing of who gave them to me, and a justification for why they gave it
> to me (which would have to be added to the cookie spec). Then let me delete or
> maintain as desired. Put this in my hands and I'd be very happy to see who is
> giving me cookies and why.
Additionally, to allow the user to *block* acceptance of cookies from
certain sites, and to allow the user to specify that he or she wants to be
(or alternately, doesn't want to be) notified when a particular cookie is
going to be sent.
Jacob Rose "The truth is where the sculptor's
jacob@whiteshell.com chisel chipped away the lie."
