Heh, candy from EFF, for log-holders here:
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_02.php#002370
EFF Announces New Privacy Tool
Logfinder Helps Eliminate Unwanted Logging of Personal Data
ciao!
Ben
larry price wrote the following on 2/8/2005 10:54 AM:
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 21:43:24 -0800, Bob M
larry price wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 21:43:24 -0800, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > A cookie should just be a nonce. It shouldn't give the end-user any
> > information and the system shouldn't rely on it having any structure.
> > It should also change frequently to prevent replay
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 21:43:24 -0800, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A cookie should just be a nonce. It shouldn't give the end-user any
> information and the system shouldn't rely on it having any structure.
> It should also change frequently to prevent replay attacks.
but you've set your
larry price wrote:
> what if my site needs you to keep 5k of base64 encoded binary data
> that defines your preferences and personal info in the cookie, since
> it is after all Your Data.
I'll argue that that's a bad idea regardless of the existence of People
Like Me. The reason is that if you'r
> > cookies.txt is a text file. Hand edit it so it only contains
> > the cookies you want to preserve. Then make it unwriteable.
> >
> > $ chmod -w path/to/cookies.txt
You do know that it's people like you who make certain kinds of web
programming difficult.
what if my site needs you to keep
On 07-Feb-05, you wrote:
> I don't want to dampen your enthusiasm for that project, but let me
> tell you what I did instead.
>
> cookies.txt is a text file. Hand edit it so it only contains
> the cookies you want to preserve. Then make it unwriteable.
>
> $ chmod -w path/to/cookies.txt
Thi
Hey, that's really smart. Thanks, Bob! I will
Walter, his solution is better than mine. Each cookie is just a line in
the text file, so "freezing" it at a known good point just works. No
need for text-parsing hacks.
This thread is an example of why this list rocks. One person poses a
question,
Max Lemieux wrote:
> A noble cause indeed. And yes I'd be writing it to work with Firefox.
>
> Send me email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the names of the websites
> you want to save cookies from, and I'll send you a custom version of the
> script if I ever get it together. :)
I don't want to dam
I tried tthe ~/mozillain both the START=>RUNand the START =>SEARCH
utils, no joy,, when I find the path how do I enter it on the 'doze side
of the partition, since I havn't been able to figure out how to get on line
from the lx side, as much as I would like to...
_
A noble cause indeed. And yes I'd be writing it to work with Firefox.
Send me email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the names of the websites
you want to save cookies from, and I'll send you a custom version of the
script if I ever get it together. :)
-Max
walter fry wrote:
Neato. I suppose you could
Neato. I suppose you could even add a couple more steps and save a few
specific cookies... I know there are some that I don't necessarily want to
clear, but that get cleared each time I clear everything. Maybe I'll play
with that.
Now that sound like noble cause.. I would love to get a distro o
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