Phorm and Fraud Act?
Nicholas Bohm
ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:21:40 +0000
Charles Lindsey wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:22:11 -0000, Nicholas Bohm <nbohm@ernest.net> wrote:
>
>> But it's easy to see that when you put a forged 50p piece in the
>> machine, you are representing it to be a genuine one;
>
> And when you insert a cookie in a reply to an HTTP request, you are at
> the least representing that you are the site whose name appears inside
> the cookie.
What makes this obvious to non-geeks? As obvious as it is that putting
a coin in a machine represents it to be genuine?
...
Nicholas
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