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To: Dan Duchardt who wrote (24901)	7/5/2000 7:34:24 PM
From: Follies	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42787

Just curious about what keeps other site's cookies protected. Is there some unique code? Some sort of dual encryption? other? It is protected by the integrity of the browser. However, Active-X components, which can be downloaded as part of a normal html page, can have complete access to your file system as far as I know.

To: Dan Duchardt who wrote (24901)	7/5/2000 9:57:06 PM
From: David W. Taylor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42787

>> Just curious about what keeps other site's cookies protected. Is there some unique code? Some sort of dual encryption? other? It looks to me like Netscape keeps all the cookies in one text file, which seems more susceptible to me than the multiple files IE uses.>> The key is that the Browser does the saving and retrieving of the cookies. All the site can do is ask to have a cookie saved or retrieved. Since the browser is in control, it can choose how to store them and only the local user can scan all of the cookies. Netscape's method, like much of of Netscape's implementation, is inherently flawed. A single failure, while writing a cookie can screw up the file for ALL cookies. This alone is a bigger issue than whether or not to allow cookies. I don't touch Netscape and find no problems with this aspect of Internet Explorer. The computer press has done a terrible job of describing all of this and has really spread a bunch of misinformation. Witness the paranoid behavior described on this board. All of it quite pointless.