Cookie manipulation: [symlink ~/.netscape/cookies] to [/dev/null ]

Devon Null devnull at butcherfamily.com
Wed Jan 31 17:35:42 EST 2001


>>From 31 Jan 2001 SANS NewsBites for the SANS NewsBites service

[Editor's (Cowan) Note: Tip for UNIX users: 

If you symlink ~/.netscape/cookies to /dev/null, then Netscape will accept
cookies all day long, and then forget them all when you exit the process. 

This gives you a very convenient and very secure enforcement that the life
span of cookies on your client is exactly what you want it to be, and
generally far too short for Doubleclick to harvest.]

 --23 January 2001  FTC Closes DoubleClick Investigation

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has concluded its DoubleClick data
handling investigation, saying the company did not violate its privacy policy.

<http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/stories/0,1199,NAV47_STO56754,00.html>




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