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To: Dan Good who wrote (2908)	10/19/1998 9:37:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) of 32873

>>The presence of Cookies are one of the ways a site customize the way you get information in a way you desire. They are one of the easier ways for a programmer to figure out the way you want to view their site upon return. Yes, and programmers have a perspective different from their users, often, unfortunately. The info stored in cookie files is also in a well-known location in plain text files. Anybody with even primitive info on the format of site x's cookies can access them and, potentially, interpret them, for whatever purposes. Can you imagine, for instance, the number of people who have inside info on Microsoft's cookie format? Or Amazon.com? Did you just get a cable modem and hook it up? Do you know what access that gives to your computer by any number of people? Do you run Win 95/98? Do you know what access the low-paid night-shift techies down at your ISP can gain to your computer? How many of them were fired from Microsoft? How many still work there? These questions need answers by anyone who routinely accepts cookies. Spots

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