Hello Julian
On 29-Sep-00, you wrote:
>
> Many sites, instead of using their computers to keep track of your
> info, save all your info on your computer, and then expect to automa-
> tically read that info back, the next time you visit that site. That
> same info can be accessed by other skilled sites, who have no rights to
> that info. The only way to avoid this trespass is to delete the con-
> tents of your cache, from time to time. Of course, before you delete
> anything, make sure you have written the pertinent info on a piece of
> paper and file it someplace safe. That way, you can always give the
> site whatever info it need, by typing it in, if necessary.
>
This is completely wrong I'm afraid. The only way a remote host can access
your local machine is through services you yourself provide, or through
flaws in other software you run.
There was an exploit such as this, in Navigator, which allowed you to read
/any/ file on the target host, but it was squished a long time ago IRIC.
AFICT, there are no backdoors that would provide this facility, in any
common Amiga software.
Besides you seem to be talking about cookies, which has nothing to do with
the cache.
Steve
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