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Re: [LUG] Bad banks



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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.
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