Brion Vibber (brion@pobox.com) [051119 06:20]:
David Gerard wrote:
Can a cookie carry between different IPs for the same browser? i.e., user hangs up and dials again for a different IP?
Yes, but it's also trivially easy to remove or just reject. It's only an effective measure against the painfully naive. (Of which there are many, alas. ;)
Actually, from vandal/troll-chasing on en:, I strongly suspect there are enough as a proportion that this simple measure would help greatly.
- d.