[thelist] Truth about cookies?

[.jeff]

chris,

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> From: Chris Johnston
>
> However, the press likes to claim that they scour your
> computer tracking your every move and reporting this
> info back to their master (and however else might be
> asking).
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the press's job is to sensationalize things, whether or not the exaggeration
itself is true.

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> Is there a website or a set of standards out there that
> describes exactly the limitations and design of cookies.
> Something that will clear up all the myths once and for
> all, or has someone created a way to engineer the cookie
> to be more then it appears? Is there a way for it to be
> malicious that I don't know about?
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for all the poop on cookies -- mostly in layman's terms.
http://www.cookiecentral.com/

for the technical spec on how cookies are supposed to work.
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc2109.html

enjoy,

.jeff

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