Cookies, privacy, mIm

[James Klock]

>At 08:39 AM 6/9/98 -0700, James Klock wrote:
>>Surely you mean 32 bytes (not Kilobytes, or just over three orders of
>>magnitude larger).  And the last I checked, my cookies (per Netscape
>>3.x/4.x) are all kept in a single file (cookies.txt).
To which Bob Cherry responded:
>No, each cluster is 32,768 Bytes!!  Not just 32 bytes! 

Yeowch!  How obscenely huge!  I'm using NTFS on my own machine, with
default allocation units of 512 bytes (it's probably customizable, but I
haven't bothered to find out...) so I hadn't ever bothered to look into the
block size that 95's FAT defaults to.  

> IE places each cookie onto the disk as a seperate file. 

Yuck and yuck again.  I've never more than installed IE, and just as
quickly removed it-- Netscape maintains a single cookie file (variously
named depending on platform OS).  Thanks for pointing out a serious
potential pitfall to those folks using Windows 95 and Internet Explorer!

James