Jargons of Info Tech industry

[Paul Rubin]

gordonb.mrv0t at burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) writes:
> I'm not sure that you can disable Javascript from reading cookies
> from other sites while allowing Javascript to read cookies from the
> site it came from on all browsers.

Javascript is not supposed to be able to read cross-site cookies.
It's bad but it's not THAT bad.  There was an MSIE bug that allowed
reading other sites' cookies but it was correctly considered a
horrendous security breach and it was fixed quickly after discovery.
It caused a big fire drill where I was working at the time of the
incident.  We had to write a special ActiveX control to protect our
cookie info until the browser patch went out.