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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bill Wilson wrote: > We should all be pressing for access via any browser. The only way large > corporations will respond is if we make enough noise. (The squeeky wheel > gets the oil). It was always a hinge around here, but yes we should push for tight adherence to standards. I expected the mobile phone companies to push for this, but being phone companies they disappeared off to develop their own unworkable standard. > We should all be pressing for sites that dont demand > cookies as well. We all know how pervasive and destructive they can be > and why should we let anyone plant software on our machines for their > own purposes. > I for one dont trust em !! from paranoid Cookies are software? No one told me. Truth be told I'd far rather personal data was put on a cookie on my machine than stored in some central, hackable database. Similarly it is a good solution for customising sites, assuming people don't crush them too often, again I'd prefer it is the information was cookied rather than stored on some central database, but it is probably in both on most systems. Now browsers that let anyone request any cookie were a bad idea indeed, but people requesting their own cookies seems perfectly reasonable - or did I miss something? A quick look in the cookie bin shows nothing unexpected except rather odd com.com. entries, but that is the damn browsers trying to be too clever, and someone enterprising (CNET) trying to exploit it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+HZy6GFXfHI9FVgYRAhzTAKDDhkxijc4/TBGueSs52b3h7eEJ7ACg17Z3 bi5+gYlBrUG77r5Qr7an8v0= =gDfx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.