Guess again.

No, I'm not kidding.  As I said - look through your cookies and you'll be 
surprised at what you'll find.

On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Victor Grazi wrote:

> Well, they wouldn't know it was you!
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> On 6/15/07, Craig Froehle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Man, if someone found out about me buying habits, I'd be in hot
>> water...that nun fetish doesn't sit well with the missus. ;-)
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>> On 6/15/07, Victor Grazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I don't really care who knows my buying habits.
>>> If they don't know my address or who I am, it doesn't much effect me
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>>> On 6/15/07, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>>> On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>>>>> I have no problem with sites that use cookies to discover my habits.
>>>>> I love that Amazon always knows who I am and features listings on my
>>>> home page that are targeted to me.
>>>>> I wish every site did that.
>>>>>
>>>>> As long as cookies cant trawl my hard drive to see who I am and what
>> my
>>>>> credit card number is, I am fine with it.
>>>>
>>>> A cookie is just a small text file so it can't do anything of the
>> sort.
>>>> However, all it takes is a small browser bug, buffer overflow, etc to
>>>> allow an unscrupulous site to scavenge all of your cookies and track
>> your
>>>> browsing habits in excruciating detail.  Look through your cookies
>> some
>>>> time and you'll be surprised what you find - sites you've never even
>> heard
>>>> of that drop tracking cookies for others to load.  Browsers other than
>> IE
>>>> tend to be better there but there's really no harm in deleting cookies
>>>> periodically if you don't mind having to tell sites who you are again.
>>>>
>>>> -Jason, who also knows far too much about how cookies can be (ab)used.
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>>>> "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its
>>>> limits."
>>>>                                        - Albert Einstein
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                                        - Albert Einstein

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