I got my second postcard in the mail today, and tonight I’m putting out another round myself. While I’d like to say I’m referencing the classical literature and doing Ekphrasis on a regular basis… I’m not. Apparently I’m in the groove of alternating 14 line bits with groups of haiku. Apparently I can’t resist mentioning gnomes. Deal with it people.
Meanwhile at work I find myself having conversations with people that include something like this:
I want a computer that doesn’t have all these cookies.
or similar nonsense. People, people, people! You whine about needing “all these passwords” so don’t go whining to me about this evil overlord, the dread cookie.
Here’s what I tell them: Cookies aren’t inherently evil:
Other kinds of cookies perform essential functions in the modern web. Perhaps most importantly, authentication cookies are the most common method used by web servers to know whether the user is logged in or not, and which account they are logged in with. Without such a mechanism, the site would not know whether to send a page containing sensitive information, or require the user to authenticate themselves by logging in. The security of an authentication cookie generally depends on the security of the issuing website and the user’s web browser, and on whether the cookie data is encrypted.
