Stealing Phorm's business model

[Ian Batten]

On 07 Apr 08, at 1317, James Firth wrote:
>
> This is an eloquent example of how web users will have private  
> information
> about them leaked.
>
> Say I'm a website owner, and I have registered users' details, and I  
> want to
> find out a bit more about these users.  Next time they visit, I  
> steal their
> Phorm UUID.

Not even steal: I could make a perfectly reasonable case that I'm  
entitled to any cookie which is placed by me.  Someone who forges a  
cooking in the batten.eu.org domain can scarcely claim that  
batten.eu.org is not permitted to access it.

ian