[2468] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: cookies and privacy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth I. Rich)
Fri Jul 19 17:55:06 1996
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 09:07:49 -0400
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
From: "Seth I. Rich" <seth@hygnet.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
>People, really. This cookie thing is getting way out of hand
>bandwidth-wise. I suggest that before anyone else continue to weigh
>in with speculation, accusations, suggestions to vendors, activist
>tactics, etc., that you read this article:
>
>http://www.netscapeworld.com/netscapeworld/nw-07-1996/nw-07-cookies.html
I particularly liked:
| According to Frank Chen, security product manager at Netscape
| Communications Corp., the information maintained by cookies is
| no different than the data that could be captured at the server.
| No new information collection capabilities are added with
| cookies. [...]
<snicker>
Seth
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