From: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 19:45:00 +0800
To: Christopher Hull <nozefngr@apple.com>
Subject: Re: CookieScan 0.0 rev 0
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Christopher Hull wrote:
> What I imagine is a little utility that would
> display the cookies stashed on a machine and
> give the user the option to either delete or
> <snicker> edit </snicker> any given cookie.
> (Hey, it¹s *your* computer, not the website¹s).

  I doubt that you will have much luck here.  Many (most??) sites
that use cookies tend to encode or obscure them so that they are not
human readable.  Certainly anyone doing something questionable
will obscure their cookies so that they will not be user readable
or editable.

	--Jeff

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Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
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Any opinions expressed above are mine.