"saqib ali" <docbook.xml@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Polarina wrote:
>
>> The cookies can contain information like passwords to sites like the ones
>> you checked "Remember me".
>
> I don't think any sensible web developer will put password in a cookie.
>
> The "Remember Me" function merely looks for existence of a cookie
> associated with the particular site, and some encoded string (which is not
> the password!) in the cookie.
>
> Thanks
> Saqib
>
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> http://www.full-disc-encryption.com
>
I have seen passwords that were in the clear in cookies. Makes it all the
more important to not duplicate passwords between important and relatively
unimportant functions.
-Mark