Of course, all they have to do is crossref a couple pieces of info and
they'll be personally delivering spam to your door.
Victor Grazi 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
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>> home page that are targeted to me.
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>>> I wish every site did that.
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> -Jason, who also knows far too much about how cookies can be (ab)used.
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