babies and bathwater
Saturday, September 8th, 2001
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True Story:
It was one of those questions from my wife that I just can’t supply an answer to without getting myself in trouble.
“Look, here it says this local bar is having a ‘Thong Contest’. Do you think I should enter?”
Gack. Think Think Think….
“Don’t be thilly, you couldn’t thing to thave your life.”
This is what happens when you try to avoid using cookies. Verizon’s
URL-based sessionID avoids using cookies for people who are worried about security and privacy implications and ends up opening up a much worse security and privacy hole for everyone.
True Story:
It was one of those questions from my wife that I just can’t supply an answer to without getting myself in trouble.
“Look, here it says this local bar is having a ‘Thong Contest’. Do you think I should enter?”
Gack. Think Think Think….
“Don’t be thilly, you couldn’t thing to thave your life.”