From: nobody@huge.cajones.com (Huge Cajones Remailer)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 22:06:04 -0700 (PDT)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: SSL weakness affecting links from pa
Message-ID: <199704200506.WAA05133@fat.doobie.com>
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Steve wrote:
> > If the Netscape folks would integrate digicash into Communicator,
> > then I could program my browser to only send referer to sites that
> > paid for the information, and rent cookie space.  Want your cookie to
> > live till 1999?  Thats 24 months, at 50 cents per month...do you want
> > to pay?
> 
> That would only work until someone abuses it. People could create web
> robots to run around selling referers and several gigabytes of
> worthless cookie space. Worthless, because nobody cares about the web
> browsing habits of J. Random Robot, and they certainly don't want to
> blow $50 e-bucks on the bot's repeated visits.

  Why doesn't somebody come up with a program that gives identity
probing programs the identity of browser programmers/executives,
and make a cookie file that indicates visits to hate-group and hard-
core porn sites?

  Not that Toto's a troublemaker...

NoTot[h]o[mo]