Not-phorm

James Cox ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:54:37 +0000


On 19 Mar 2008, at 11:31, Ian Batten wrote:

>
> On 19 Mar 08, at 1121, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
>> Ian Batten wrote:
>>> On 19 Mar 08, at 1025, Ian Mason wrote:
>>>>
>>>> And how would that cause Phorm to know that they should maintain  
>>>> isolated profiles for the different logins?
>>>>
>>> Because they're booking the profiles against cookies, which are  
>>> inherently per-browser, which are in turn inherently per-login.
>>
>> usually yes, but not inherently.
>
> Can you suggest a counter-example?  And a counter-example which will  
> be encountered in the retail channel?

an interesting example would be cyber-cafes and people with multiple  
browsers in regular use.