Don’t look now, but you are being followed
IDEA No 23
THE COOKIE
Every webpage you visit, every file you download, every link you click is scrutinized and recorded. The innocuous technology that makes this possible is a simple text file called a cookie.
For security reasons, cookies are stored on the user’s computer rather than on the Web server.
A cookie is a small set of data sent from a web server and stored on a user’s computer. It records log-in details, preferences and pages visited. When a user revisits a site, the data stored in the cookie is retrieved. The website then uses this information to tailor the experience, avoiding the need ...
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