Getting Email Addresses?

[Remco Barendse]

I have seen cookies store e-mail addresses. I have seen this in cookies 
from e-card sites but e-card sites in general are a good way to get your 
mailbox filled with spam.

I always block all cookies on every puter i maintain and only allow the 
really required cookies (almost none).

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Kai Schaetzl wrote:

> Mike Kercher wrote on         Sun, 28 Mar 2004 11:57:19 -0600:
> 
> > I would wonder if the sites in question were reading cookies from the users'
> > drives?
> >
> 
> Unlikely. Cookies usually don't contain email addresses. Also, you have to
> have good knowledge about old browser holes. Why should someone try this
> complex task which has only a slim chance of succeeding today just for parsing
> non-existent email addresses from cookies? *If* you get thru you install a
> trojan, of course.
> 
> I think the chance is much higher that these people got spam, went to the
> website and got more spam and made a connection where none is.
> 
> 
> Kai
> 
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