From: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 12:54:48 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: COO_kie
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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.