Re: Some half-baked thoughts about cookies.

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In message <7999a7ef-cc5e-7d75-df9f-24acbb4a47f7@cs.tcd.ie>, Stephen Farrell wr
ites:

>Not sure I agree there, if UAs by default sent a different
>64 bit randomly generated ID to each origin and kept those
>IDs for a long time, that seems worse to me than the current
>situation. (I'm not saying that's Mike's proposal, but
>just disagreeing with your "no big difference" statement.)

How is that worse than sending an opaque cookie, possibly
containing imcompetently protected GDPR-covered personal
information for a long time ?

At least with a randomly generated ID, you know it cannot
leak information on the local machine (hacked/lost/discarded).

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Received on Friday, 17 August 2018 15:44:53 UTC