Re: WinPatrol interferes with P3P implementation

Mirco, 

thanks for this important feedback. Why doesn't WinPatrol actually use 
the P3P information to rate and judge cookies? This would be a very 
good complement for them. 

Best, 
-- 
Rigo Wenning            W3C/ERCIM
Staff Counsel           Privacy Activity Lead
mail:rigo@w3.org        2004, Routes des Lucioles
http://www.w3.org/      F-06902 Sophia Antipolis



Am Saturday 11 June 2005 01:56 verlautbarte Mirco Soderi :
> This is to inform people interested in P3P policy implementation on
> websites that the WinPatrol WatchDog, an application available for
> download at http://www.winpatrol.com aimed to increase the security
> on common users' PCs, interferes with P3P policies implementations in
> the following way: cookies saved by websites having a validated P3P
> policy implemented are accepted by the web browser (i.e. MS IE6) and
> correctly stored in the user's PC, but every 8 minutes (by deafult
> setting) the WatchDog removes them.