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?
-- 
Roland Perry