Surfer's of the Information Super Highway believe that sending email and linking from one web page to another are private and anonymous. Every time you visit a site, your leaving a marker that reveals where you come from, what kind of computer you have, and other details about your identity and viewing habits for the Cookie Monster! Cookies by themselves pose no threat to the user and may even enhance user security when used by legitimate web sites. However rogue web sites that generate cookies coupled with JavaScript contains a feature that will provide rogue sites

with the ability to read, write, erase and access the end user's hard disk. It has been documented that there several security issues in all of the popular browsers that allow a remote site to access the contents of a user's machine through the use of rogue ActiveX, Java and JavaScript programs.

When dealing with computers, security and privacy are together. Information stored on your own computer is not protected, unless you already taken steps to protect your data, anyone can read all files on your computer. Unlike E-mail messages you send are often stored in a "Sent mail" folder, they are vulnerable to compromise by anyone who accesses your hard disk.

Although everyone takes privacy in normal life for granted, trying to get the same level of privacy on the Internet (or even on your own c

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