Re: The Phish that isn't Going Away

"Mike Easter" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> spamacyde wrote:
>
>> It offers up a cookie and I rejected  it.  How much damage could
>> the cookie have done?
>
> Cookies cannot do damage.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie   An
> HTTP cookie, or a Web cookie, is a parcel of text sent by a server to a
> web browser and then sent back unchanged by the browser each time it
> accesses that server.

Err..... Mike, would you like to re-phrase that comment?  Cookies can and do 
cause damage:

http://www.peacefire.org/security/iecookies
http://www.cookiecentral.com/dsm.htm
http://www.donkboy.com/html/priv1.htm

Q.10. Do "cookies" pose any security risks?:
http://www.w3.org/Security/Faq/wwwsf2.html

DoubleClick immediately springs to mind........