Internet Cookies: How Edible Are They?

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• What is a Cookie and Why Should You Care?
  • Center for Democracy and Technology (http://www.cdt.org/)
  • Electronic Privacy Information Center (http://epic.org/)
  • Electronic Foundation Federation (http://www.eff.org/)
• Who Uses Cookies?
  • Robert Brooks¹ Cookie Taste Test (http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/4535/cookie.html)
• What Are They Doing With Cookies?
• What Could They Do With Cookies?
  • http://www.doubleclick.net/
  • http://www.doubleclick.net/advertising/howads.htm
• What Can't They Do With Cookies?
• How do I Find Out What Cookies I Have Already Accepted?
• How do I Stop Cookies?
  • Anonymizer (http://www.anonymizer.com/)
  • Luckman¹s Anonymous Cookie for Internet Privacy (Win/Mac). (http://www.luckman.com/)
  • Privnet: Internet Fast Forward. (http://www.privnet.com/)
  • PGPcookie.cutter for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0. (http://www.pgp.com/products/)
  • Macworld Online: Cookie Monster. (http://www.macworld.com/)
  • Cookie Jar (requires UNIX shell, but blocks cookies from only sites you select). (http://www.lne.com/ericm/cookie_jar/)
  • ZDNet's Cookie Master for Windows. (http://www.zdnet.com/)
• So What's the Bottom Line?
• Recommended Articles about Cookies
  • Barr, Christopher. ³The Truth about cookies.² C/Net. (http://www.cnet.com/Content/Voices/Barr/042996/)
  • Michelsen, Greg; Rein, Lisa. ³Five reasons people find cookies objectionable & how to address them.² Netscape World, February 1997. (http://www.netscapeworld.com/netscapeworld/nw-02-1997/nw-02-cookie2.html)
  • Negrino, Tom. ³Netsmart: The Cookie Trade.² Macworld. (Macworld Online Special Report.).
    • pt.1: ³So what are cookies anyway?² (http://www.macworld.com/netsmart/cookiestory.html)
    • pt.2: ³Good reasons for cookies.² (http://www.macworld.com/netsmart/cookiestory2.html)
    • pt.3: ³Keeping things private.² (http://www.macworld.com/netsmart/cookiestory3.html)
    • pt.4: ³Cookies as marketing tools.² (http://www.macworld.com/netsmart/cookiestory4.html)
    • pt.5: ³Revenge of the cookie chompers.² (http://www.macworld.com/netsmart/cookiestory5.html)
  • Sullivan, Eamonn. ³Are Web-based cookies a treat or a recipe for trouble?² PC Week, June 26, 1996. (http://www.8.zdnet.com/pcweek/reviews/0624/24cook2.html)
• Related Resources
  • Cookie Central. (http://www.cookiecentral.com/)
  • Humes, Malcolm. ³Malcolm¹s Guide to Persistent Cookies Resources.¹ (http://www.emf.net/~mal/cookiesinfo.html)
  • Netscape Communications Corporation. ³Cookies and Privacy FAQ.² (http://home.netscape.com/assist/security/faqs/cookies.html)
  • Netscape Communications Corporation. ³Persistent Client State HTTP Cookies² (http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html)
  • Yahoo¹s Cookie Page (http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/HTTP/Protocol_Specification/Persistent_Cookies/)
• Sidebar: Cookie Demo Sites
  • CDT (http://www.cdt.org/) (choose ³Privacy Demonstration Page²)
  • CDT, for a different response try: (http://13x.com/cgi-bin/cdt/snoop.pl)
  • CDT Online Services Chart (http://www.cdt.com/privacy/online_services/chart.html)

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