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hootinholler

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1. To speak of cookies of your tweets, and posts etc.
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 04:21 PM
Mar 2014

Is meaningless. There are no such things. Cookies track state of a session with a web server, primarily your credentials. If you have the right cookie, you can do stuff. The man in the middle attack can then leverage that with the server, or feed you other cookies which may open up vulnerabilities on your machine because you trusted the server you think you are interacting with.

If you give a spook a cookie, he's gonna want your packets.

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