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Subject: Re: Hans Gerber is suspended--thanks for your understanding

Author: Michael Cummings

Date: 06:42:25 06/30/00

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On June 30, 2000 at 08:36:27, Jeroen van Dorp wrote:

>ZoneAlarm is indeed a nice program, it is a freeware firewall for personal use,
>like BlackICE, I use it for quite some time now and am very satisfacted. It
>doesn't hamper Internet comms at all, while guaranteeing you full stealth mode
>by hiding your ports.
>
>However if you grant a program access, like Netscape or Internet Explorer, it
>means also downloading the cookie.
>So for that part I think better use your browser security settings or a program
>like IDcide.
>
>http://www.zonelabs.com
>
>It is strange, BTW, how we descibe such a blocker. When I read William Gibson in
>the Eighties, he was talking about ICE, (I think Intrusive Countermeasure
>Electronics or so) but in reality we switched from the ICE to the FIRE(wall).
>
>Jeroen ;-}

Even when dealing with cookies, if someone wants to stay private, they would not
have any identifying marks that would go out in the cookies. There are programs
on the market that will make sure cookies are used in a totally safe manner.







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