Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 21:04:55 GMT From: 'nuther Bob <yetanotherphonyaddressnopsamacereally.com> Subject: Re: Best tyres for 9-3?
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:28:58 GMT, "Skid" <skid2nopsamast.net> wrote: >It's OT anyway, but Zuke was advising people to avoid using one of the best >sources of tire and wheel info on the net because of a misplaced paranoia >about cookies. There is a lot of paranoia about cookies. But, cookies never contain anything the web site that you didn't tell them. The only thing they do is give a site the ability to tell that it's you returning ("You being identifiable only as far as you've identified yourself to them). FWIW, one domain cannot read the cookies of another - so tirerack.com cannot read cookies from microsoft.com. Is there anything "bad" in cookies ? Well, Yahoo was stupid enough to _automatically_ put your username and password in a cookie on your machine (or actually, any machine where you logged in to check email). Now they give you a choice, so you can demonstrate your stupidity for yourself. Other sites may be equally as stupid: don't enter passwords, usernames, or other private information on (public) systems you don't own - or learn how to flush the cookies and cache in the browser you use. Be aware that anything you type into a web site that does not start with https:// (note the "s" in "https" as opposed to the normal "http://" ) is easily evesdropped off an intranet or internet. Bob
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