John Young wrote:
2-12-96. FinTim:
"This bug in your PC is a smart cookie."
Netscape Navigator contains a little-known wrinkle that increases the power of companies to find out who their customers are and what they are up to. It allows companies to track which Web pages an individual looks at, when, for how long, and in what order. The information is stored on the customer's computer as "persistent client-state hypertext transfer protocol cookies".
2-12-96. WSJ:
There is a lot of confusion about cookies. They do not allow a web site to access private information such as the user's e-mail address or other preferences as was recently reported in Web Review. They only store information that the web site already has. If you never give a web site private information about you or your identity, they will not be able to match your access patterns to your identity. --Jeff -- Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist Netscape Communication Corporation jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw Any opinions expressed above are mine.