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To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (22)	10/22/1998 5:38:00 AM
From: Dick Smith	Respond to of 77

When we toss our cookies... Gypsy wondered "When we delete our cookies, are they really gone off our hard drive or does it mean only, that we can no longer see them. Are they still on our computer somewhere?" Kerry Carmichael answered correctly "To answer your questions directly (for Windows users), if you simply remove a file to the wastebasket and then empty the wastebasket, the file is NOT deleted from your disk, and could be recovered using special commands and software applications." Yes, it's true that the cookie information isn't gone if you delete the cookie file, and someone scanning your disk might find it... but what's the point. Unless your disk has been seized by the police, or your boss is really nosy about what you've been doing instead of working, nobody is going to be looking. I mean, it is your disk, right? More important, if you delete the cookie file, your browser isn't going to scan the disk looking for old leftover cookies... it's going to create a new empty cookie file, and it will never send out those old cookies again. So deleting the cookie file is a useful technique that will help keep you anonymous. And you probably don't need to reformat your disk to get satisfactory privacy. Hope this helps. Dick p.s. If you are hiding from the law, or whatever... don't forget to empty your browser cache... where there can be days of history of what you were doing. And the browser history file. Better just reformat the whole disk while you're at it.