Not-phorm
Roland Perry
ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:30:43 +0000
In article <CA008861-E8F2-47B9-9A28-931F7D177E83@imaj.es>, James Cox
<james@imaj.es> writes
>>>>> 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
I thought these often had schemes to "wipe" the PC in between clients,
to avoid all sorts of issues related to pollution from the previous
user.
>and people with multiple browsers in regular use.
For that to be a counter-example, the use of multiple browsers by one
"login" would have to have a bad effect on another "login". How would
that work?
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Roland Perry