Re: [wg-review] A Reply to Miles B. Whitener... Re: The owners of "the Internet" must manage it for their own benefit

[Robin Miller <robin@minervan.com>]

Sotiropoulos wrote:

> 
> But, I don't see any actions being taken against the setting of cookies... nor do I foresee anything on the horizon, do you?
> 
> Sotiris Sotiropoulos
>           Hermes Network, Inc.

in theory, you can sue someone for that here. Cookies are illegal in Germany.
But sometimes cookies have to be set for certain applications - like on Delphi
for example. They use cookies to identify you to the forum software system.
Cookies are necessary for the site to work, its also the case for the Blaxxun
3d software as well. Needs cookies to work, so you log in and the community
software 'remembers' you and all your stuff in the environment.

So with cookies, I guess its all in the application of them. The new fun thing
to do on sites is to try connecting to your computer with NetBIOS - that can be
worse than cookies... all in all, best get a decent firewall. Many firewalls
block cookies, (norton for sure does) and a decent one will surely block
NetBIOS access through the Net. Norton has a neat feature of being able to turn
cookies on in the browser but turning it to ask me on the firewall, when it
hits a cookie, it asks you if you want to accept them from that site. Yes - you
accept them. No, it throws all the cookies from that site silently into the
bitbin.

all the best, Robin
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