Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org> writes:

Heinz-Juergen Keller skribis:

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Just a silly? question on cookies: What will happen if I just link cookies.txt to /dev/null ? Is there anything speaking against this solution?

Works fine on Unix and Linux systems if you're not a cookie fan: the remote sites think you've eaten their cookies, but you've merely frisbeed them into the bit bin.

It's better than telling Netscape you want to be asked: some sites set a dozen cookies per hit, seems like, and saying "no" to each gets immediately tedious. If you tell Netscape to reject them, some sites won't serve you the content. Setting the browser to accept everything and linking cookies.txt to /dev/null works well for me.

microsoft.com, firefly.com, and parts of yahoo.com wee the only sites I found that 1) try to set the cookie, 2) test if the cookies is what they expected, 3) refuse to proceed if the cookie isn't what they expected it to be. Here are a few more neat wafers that I use with junkbuster: wafer Apache=0 wafer cookieswork=1 # .hotwired.com randomhacker cypherpunks (cypherpunks was already taken # and password wasn't cypherpunks) wafer u=randomhacker:XXXrHYVJ4gKTg:888306120: # barnes and noble cypherpunks wafer userid=21200U41QE # .ffly.com v2 random_q_hacker cypherpunks (again, cypherpunks already taken # with a different password) wafer NAME=random%5Fq%5Fhacker wafer ALIAS=random%5Fq%5Fhacker wafer FIREFLYTICKETV2=a3d11c2224f036b8c5da227f07ac7694b3430734d16595e7ff09c9216dbac8af6 wafer FFLYID=381916 # .ffly.com v3 wafer USERNAME=random$5Fq$5Fhacker wafer USERID=4031415 wafer USERKEY=rrL2ECYFs8Q wafer PASSWORD=rrL2ECYFs8Q # I haven't quite gotten this wafer to work: # .firefly.net random_q_hacker(.firefly):cypherpunks (won't let user=password) wafer FIREFLYTICKETV3 XWHKLLTVMLTVYWVJEHUNMHa\XVLHNHLGHIVRVUKKKKKK # .yahoo.com cypherpunks:cypherpunks wafer Y=v=1&n=fh5fme4ro4p10&l=2of74hfkdai/o&p=f1s022r2030r wafer M=dp=sum&lg=us wafer T=z=34caa94c While this is tangentially crypto-relevant, let's start a thread on feeding wafers to various tracking software to convince it that the same cypherpunks entity is doing all of our browsing. Can several of people agree on feeding the same values of the following wafers: # .pathfinder.com wafer PFUID=ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff # webcrawler.com wafer AnonTrack=FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF # RealMedia (NYTimes et al) wafer RMID=0 # .hotwired.com wafer p_uniqid=0osqlPoOiF7XKIGM6D wafer s_uniqid=0osqlPoOiF7XKIGM6D wafer unique_id=1668800885692100 wafer NGUserID=ced54487-134-885708087-1 wafer session-id=0 wafer session-id-time=0 # .geocities.com wafer GeoStitial=885690000 wafer GeoId=0 wafer EGSOFT_ID=0 wafer CFID=0 # .four11.com wafer Urid=68847000 wafer DOL=0 wafer DTRACK=0 Protect your privacy by confusing the software that would violate it. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps