Re: Cookies??? May I take your e-mail address, too ?

• To: Jens Thiel <thielj@athene.informatik.uni-bonn.de>, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
• Subject: Re: Cookies??? May I take your e-mail address, too ?
• From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
• Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 15:43:57 -0700
• Cc: thielj@athene.informatik.uni-bonn.de (Jens Thiel)

At 09:18 PM 7/11/96 +0200, Jens Thiel wrote:
>I don't know if those people discussing over cookies know the 
>javascript 'feature' of grabbing an e-mail address while loading
>a page. Combine this with cookies and log information!!!
>
>See http://www.Bonn.CityNet.DE/surprise.htm for an example.

This does not appear to work with Netscape 3.0 beta 5.  (I believe this
security hole was fixed a few versions back.)

Also, the page is in German...  Hard to read when you do not speak the
language...
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