[X4U] Scary widget

[DZ-Jay]

Michael Winter wrote:
> 
> On Jun 10, 2005, at 9:51 AM, DZ-Jay wrote:
> 
>> There is nothing special about "cookies", they are just plain text  
>> files stored within your filesystem, and so they are available to  any 
>> other application.  They are not, however, available to other  
>> websites while using the browser -- as the browser will only serve  to 
>> a website the cookies that are "owned" by that web site.
> 
> 
> Thanks for clarifying that. I thought there was nothing really  
> "protecting" cookies from being read

There isn't.

 > and was wondering if was left to
> the browser to handle security.

It is.

> Now I may have to go take another look at Tiger's new permissions  
> scheme and see if there's a way to limit Read status of a file not  only 
> to a given user, but also to a specific program or programs. I  probably 
> wouldn't worry about using it, just like to know what can be  done.

I believe that Tiger does have ACL's, which allow for fine-grained 
permissions, but I don't have Tiger, so don't quote me on that :)

	dZ.