Steve Vertigo wrote:
Allow me to clarify -- there was a recent study on fingerprinting done via miscellaneous stuff - server llogs, etc. cookies being a basic kind of fingerprinting tool for access. Yadda yadda..
Dude, your user name is shipped across the internet in plaintext in every page you download from the server while logged in. Why are you worried about a cookie that has the same information?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)