Re: Someone is testing my firewall

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 09:27:55 -0700 (PDT) David Talkington
<dtalk prairienet org> imparted to us:
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> ABrady wrote:
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> >Use mozilla or galeon because they allow you
> >to delete cookies and block certain ones from ever being received
> again.
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> Here's my favorite trick:
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> ~ $ ln -sf /dev/null .netscape/cookies
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> Now the browser says to the server, "Sure, I'll take your cookie!"
> and then silently discards it.  =)

Unfortunately, there are some sites where I need cookies to do business
(oh, that it weren't so). This would prevent it. Using the other way
helps me to kill off certain ones and allow others. Most I don't care
about, but some I'd like to permanently destroy (24/7media, doubleclick,
valueclick, etc).
 
> I've heard, but have not tested, that you can get a similar effect in
> Windows Netscape by making the cookie file read-only.

I'd heard that, too, and even tried it. That was a long time ago and I
never remembered to go back and check it to see if it worked at the
time.

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