Re: cookie crumbs
- From: "tribble" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 18:45:54 -0500
Perhaps you're right -- I was just thinking of the scenario where my
password is on the server instead of my computer. Anyone could connect and
get at it if they knew how.
--le
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dale Leavens" <dleavens@xxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: cookie crumbs
Why would that be less secure than the cookie carrying the password? A
cookie can be interrogated and decoded or copied from your computer easily
either way.
----- Original Message -----
From: "tribble" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: cookie crumbs
> That would be incredibly insecure, more so than putting the password in a
> cookie.
> I hope it's not the case.
> Thanks to all for the suggestions -- I'm going to try them out.
> --le
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dale Leavens" <dleavens@xxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 5:51 PM
> Subject: Re: cookie crumbs
>
>
> Hi,
>
> It may be that the password is not saved as a cookie on your computer
> directly but as a selection on the site. The site will recognize your
> computer by the session cookies it leaves on your computer and thereby
> brings up your account on that site. You confirm who you are with your
> user
> name and the site fills in the rest.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tribble" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "bprogramming" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 12:40 PM
> Subject: cookie crumbs
>
>
>> Hi all --
>> I have a question about IE7, the google toolbar, and anything else that
>> might be responsible for saving passwords. I have logins on a number of
>> sites that I really don't want broken into -- places like paypal for
>> example. I do not want the password, which I always have memorized, saved
>> in
>> some cookie on my system. At first I thought this would not happen
>> without
>> me explicitly telling it to, but recently when I go to paypal, something
>> fills in the password field. Since the password is starred out, I tried
>> hitting the log in button to see if the saved password would work and
>> sure
>> enough, it did.
>> So what app is responsible for saving this info, and howdo I prevent it?
>> (Needless to say, I never opt to save a cookie with this info on the
>> sites
>> of interest. So I don't think that I'm the culprit...)
>> TIA for any info.
>> --le
>>
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