[privacy] Microsoft Awarded 'Super Cookie' Patent

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via internetnews.com.

[snip]

A new Microsoft patent is causing a little heartburn in some quarters, but the patent for a so-called "super cookie," 
may have come so long after Microsoft's application that it's been superceded by newer technologies.

U.S. Patent 7,039,699, or '699, will provide developers with a permanent cookie that can contain bits, counters, dates 
and strings and can be accessed via an API that can be called from JavaScript, ASP and VBScript.

It's what can be done with the cookie that has some people sensing an invasion of privacy.

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More:
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3604321

- ferg


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