Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe

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2001


It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = On 11/6/01 2:45 AM, dale wrote:> LONDON -- The cookie, a simplistic identification tag that most Internet > users unknowingly carry when surfing the Web, runs the risk of being > outlawed under a proposed privacy directive from the European Commission. > > > > Full story is here: > http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48025,00.html > And to fuel fires like this: ----------------------------------- Web Development & Design ----------------------------------- SECURITY HOLE IN IE REVEALS DATA IN COOKIES (Source: Computerworld) The vulnerability means a user's personal information, such as a credit card number or home address, could be stolen by a malicious site, if other sites have stored that data on the user's hard drive. http://click.email-publisher.com/maaaeixaaQAKKa9fF8Vb/ And since the vote in parliament is tomorrow: http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO65321,00.html Just found the coincidence interesting!AlexAlex J McCombie New World Media Chief Information Officer Drawer 607 800/724.8973 Fair Haven, NY 13064 Alex@NewWorldMedia.com http://OurClients.comInterface Designer WebDNA Programmer Database Designer------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Alex McCombie 2001)
  2. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Bob Minor 2001)
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  4. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Paul Uttermohlen 2001)
  5. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Alex McCombie 2001)
  6. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Bob Minor 2001)
  7. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Alex McCombie 2001)
  8. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (John Peacock 2001)
  9. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (John Peacock 2001)
  10. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Glenn Busbin 2001)
  11. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Bob Minor 2001)
  12. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Alex McCombie 2001)
  13. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (dale 2001)
  14. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (John Peacock 2001)
  15. Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (dale 2001)
On 11/6/01 2:45 AM, dale wrote:> LONDON -- The cookie, a simplistic identification tag that most Internet > users unknowingly carry when surfing the Web, runs the risk of being > outlawed under a proposed privacy directive from the European Commission. > > > > Full story is here: > http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48025,00.html > And to fuel fires like this: ----------------------------------- Web Development & Design ----------------------------------- SECURITY HOLE IN IE REVEALS DATA IN COOKIES (Source: Computerworld) The vulnerability means a user's personal information, such as a credit card number or home address, could be stolen by a malicious site, if other sites have stored that data on the user's hard drive. http://click.email-publisher.com/maaaeixaaQAKKa9fF8Vb/ And since the vote in parliament is tomorrow: http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO65321,00.html Just found the coincidence interesting!AlexAlex J McCombie New World Media Chief Information Officer Drawer 607 800/724.8973 Fair Haven, NY 13064 Alex@NewWorldMedia.com http://OurClients.comInterface Designer WebDNA Programmer Database Designer------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Alex McCombie

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