[Web4lib] Session Cookie Problems when Patrons Use IRS Free File

[Thomas Dowling]

On 1/25/2007 5:13 PM, Micah Stevens wrote:

> ...cookies are very helpful, and
> should present little security risk other than you can be fairly easily
> tracked.

Which raises valid privacy concerns, not security concerns.  It's
exactly this third-party cookie technique that lets sites you know
nothing about follow your movements among multiple other sites, and
share that data with you-know-not-whom.

It's unfortunate that the IRS would be so insensitive to this, but the
O.P. will just have to make an exception for them in the IE settings.


-- 
Thomas Dowling
tdowling at ohiolink.edu