In a message of 29-Sep-00 Neil Williams wrote:
> What they do (normally) is just send a unique ID to match your machine to
> their database. Take a look at some cookies to see that. They aren't really
> that much of a security risk, at most even if someone gets hold of them from
> your machine they could see what books or news items you're interested in..
Many sites also use cookies to know you are a member. A good example is
eGroups where you don't have to login more than once if you allow it to
set a cookie. So it can be a security risk if somebody can managed to
obtain them. Another site that could case similar troubles is Yahoo.com's
auction site. Yahoo uses cookies like eGroups, but fortunately you can not
place a bid without entering the password again.
But generally cookies is not a security risk as long as you can make sure
nobody else obtains your cookies.
Uffe Holst
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