Re: talking about cookies (was: session something...)

2000-05-13 Thread Gunther Birznieks
At 07:28 PM 5/12/00 +0300, Stas Bekman wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2000, Keith G. Murphy wrote: "Jeffrey W. Baker" wrote: On Thu, 11 May 2000, Marc Slemko wrote: In reality, IE's recently publicized hole (which I reported to them, in a slightly modified form, months ago but they

Re: talking about cookies (was: session something...)

2000-05-12 Thread Keith G. Murphy
"Jeffrey W. Baker" wrote: On Thu, 11 May 2000, Marc Slemko wrote: In reality, IE's recently publicized hole (which I reported to them, in a slightly modified form, months ago but they didn't see fit to release a patch...) doesn't change much. Hotmail? Yahoo mail? amazon.com?

Re: talking about cookies (was: session something...)

2000-05-12 Thread Jay Jacobs
The issue isn't the technical aspects of the bug, or even the fact that users don't have to turn off cookies to fix the bug... the issue is that this, with help from the talented press, will cause more people to simply disable cookies whether right or wrong. This ties back into a previous

Re: talking about cookies (was: session something...)

2000-05-12 Thread Stas Bekman
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Keith G. Murphy wrote: "Jeffrey W. Baker" wrote: On Thu, 11 May 2000, Marc Slemko wrote: In reality, IE's recently publicized hole (which I reported to them, in a slightly modified form, months ago but they didn't see fit to release a patch...) doesn't

Re: talking about cookies (was: session something...)

2000-05-12 Thread Mike Miller
On Fri, 12 May 2000 11:15:02 -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: What great functionality is lost if users turn off their scripting? Of course, this may be an abstract question in terms of programming, if users *do* insist on enabling scripting. Some applications (for better or worse) support the

Re: talking about cookies (was: session something...)

2000-05-12 Thread Stas Bekman
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Jay Jacobs wrote: The issue isn't the technical aspects of the bug, or even the fact that users don't have to turn off cookies to fix the bug... the issue is that this, with help from the talented press, will cause more people to simply disable cookies whether right or

talking about cookies (was: session something...)

2000-05-11 Thread Stas Bekman
For all those who favor chocolate cookies (mostly related to the latest discussion about the sessions): IE hole exposes Web surfers' private data: Microsoft is working on a patch that will prevent its Internet Explorer browser from inadvertently letting Web sites peer into any visitor's cookie

Re: talking about cookies (was: session something...)

2000-05-11 Thread Marc Slemko
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Stas Bekman wrote: For all those who favor chocolate cookies (mostly related to the latest discussion about the sessions): IE hole exposes Web surfers' private data: Microsoft is working on a patch that will prevent its Internet Explorer browser from inadvertently

Re: talking about cookies (was: session something...)

2000-05-11 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 11 May 2000, Marc Slemko wrote: In reality, IE's recently publicized hole (which I reported to them, in a slightly modified form, months ago but they didn't see fit to release a patch...) doesn't change much. Hotmail? Yahoo mail? amazon.com? etc. Your cookies for all those