I see, so A cookie directory or file is a kind of firewall in itself, no risk some malignant virus writer can get in and use the cookie file as a base to go do things to your OS and generally reek havoc then ?-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Richard Smith Sent: Friday, 29 August 2003 9:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Apps - Firewalls
HaywireMac wrote:
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 20:10:43 +0800 "Frankie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
Disabling cookies outright is generally a bad idea.. I prefer to block any cookies with expiry dates that are over a week in the future. Also, I block any cookies coming from domains different from the page you are on.
If you disable all cookies, many interactive pages will not work properly if at all, like shopping carts, and many other similiar scripts.
I also set any cookies from doubleclick and the other spam/add organisations to blocked.
Actually, that's something I've never really thought about. What are the potential dangers with cookies, besides someone knowing what sites I visit. I don't visit any porn sites, so no chance of embarassment, not that I'd give a rat's ass anyway, but what other threats are there?
Isn't it a way in for virus writers to get inside your protection systems ? How safe is a cookie directory ?
And in anycase why do we want to let other folk plant things on our hard drive. Sure some email stores insist on having cookies enabled ,else they will not let you shop. Hard luck for them, go some place else, that do let you sho without enabling cookies.
FRANKI:
Cookies are pretty safe as far as what anyone can use them for.. mozilla doens't even have a cookie directory, it has a cookie file where it stores all cookies.
If you have an app that you log into.. a cookie is the most common way for the application can tell you have logged in.. without the cookie you will have to reenter your username and password at each step.
There are ways to code around it, but cookies are still hugely favored for this sort of thing. And if you don't allow cross domain cookies, there is not much spying you can do with them either.
regards
Franki
John
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