[2503] in WWW Security List Archive
How Many Unsubscribers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Kennedy)
Mon Jul 22 22:15:57 1996
Date: 22 Jul 96 19:50:11 EDT
From: David Kennedy <76702.3557@compuserve.com>
To: World Wide Web Security <WWW-SECURITY@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
For the list owner to answer, if possible, and for the list to lurk on the
question and answer:
How many list members have unsubscribed since the immortal "Cookies" issue took
off? There's been at least a half-dozen who sent the command to the list. How
many did it correctly? How about a rough percentage of the list membership?
This issue (non-issue) must be immortal. Otherwise it would have died a natural
and merciful death long before this.
Hints: Used an editor and trim your Cookies.txt file. Set attribute to read
only.
Businesses have a legitimate business purpose for cookies. Including
doubleclick. Deal with it. If you don't like it, delete every "COM" domain
from your bookmark file and go there no more.
Would the list owner be interested in setting up a Cookies list so the rest of
us could get back to more important W3 security issues? And no I _am_not_
volunteering.
flames to: dev/nul
!^NavFont02F02EC0007MGHHIED0362
Protect what you connect;
Look both ways before crossing the Net
Dave Kennedy, CISSP
InfoSec Reconnaissance Team Chief
National Computer Security Association
Carlisle, PA
!N2
