The following is for your food for thought, good health, and good night rest.
What's on or in our systems we don't know about?
What's in our systems provided by the providers on what we prescribe or manage?
Is it safe to have others write systems for us?
Shouldn't we GP's do it our selves?
Instead of relying on the benevolence of the esteemed providers.
greetings
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> This "MagicCookie" file is very useful in some cases, like storing some
>viewing
> configurations (i.e. with or without frames, etc...), but it can also
>help the server
> know WHO you are and what you do.
> Say you go to lycos and lookup some keywords, well lycos can store in the
>cookie
> file a number that helps it know that you're user ID 238f983298ds8s9df
>(for example)
> and store what you looked for in its database (on the web server, this time).
> Well, let's not be paranoid, but, say Glittering Computers Inc wants to
>spam some ads,
> it could ask lycos to setup a specific gif image on lycos' page only to
>users who
> lookedup computer related links. (that's a simple example).
>
> The Magic Cookie is a file created by Microsoft Explorer and Netscape
> Navigator which resides in the preferences folder. It stores data
>about you,
> and enables servers you visit to keep track of what you search for and
> access. They can store this information in their databases for the
>purpose of
> marketing analyses and perhaps to generate mailing lists. Besides
> commercial uses, it's always possible that some servers out there could use
> this feature to simply record any of your comings and goings and do
>with the
> information what they will. We're trying not to sound too Orwellian, but
> you get the drift...
>
> Cookie Monster trashes the MagicCookie file every time it is launched.
> Install it in your Startup Items folder and Magic Cookie will do the
>rest. If
> for some reason you would like to reinstall the Magic Cookie, simply take
> Cookie Monster out of your Startup Items folder.
>
> For more info, you can lookup:
>
> http://pobox.com/~nicolas/monster.html
>
> http://www.illuminatus.com/cookie_pages/cookie.cgi
> http://www.bravado.net/rodgers/InterNetNews.html
>
> or netscape's technical page on the cookie standard:
> http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html
Gerard Freriks,huisarts, MD
C. Sterrenburgstr 54
3151JG Hoek van Holland
the Netherlands (31) 174-384296/ Fax: -386249
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