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Date:      Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:37:23 -0700 (MST)
From:      Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
To:        J McKitrick <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        John Purser <johnmpurser@home.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: amazon email response
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.0003241034580.511-100000@alive.znep.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000324163253.J89615@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, J McKitrick wrote:

> What's wrong with barnes and noble, other than being big?

Their total lack of a clue about security.  Anyone who can steal your
cookies (which is pretty easy for most people) can do whatever the heck
they want with your account.

If you use barnes and noble, you definitely want to make sure you have a
separate "session" where you only login, use them, then log out
explicitly.  Don't go to other sites, read email with a HTML mail reader,
etc. while you are logged in.

Although Amazon has had some issues, they have barnesandnoble.com beat by
a mile in this area.



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