How do I interpret the information contained in a cookie's text file? Can the information be changed/deleted to confuse the server and conceal my identity? I work in technical support for BellSouth and am banned from posting to dslreports, with possible consequences of being terminated if caught. I visited dslreports at home the other night and was going to read a review of BellSouth, when lo and behold, my browser prompted me to accept a cookie from BellSouth [even though I was at dslreports.com]. I can understand why that posting to dslreports would be prohibited at work, but what I do on my own time, provided I don't post proprietary or sensitive customer information of course, is my own business in my opinion. Bellsouth is not my isp, but my isp is a local reseller within the Bellsouth domain. The cookie is as follows: "Am_UserId
3c5e1ff53b846d7 bellsouth.com/1056 3516270720 29671180 710270560 29470015 *" Now, obviously, the NOC could track me and find out who I am if they wanted to via phone records and internet logon userid. Are they, or am I just being paranoid? Or are they just tracking the hits on BellSouth reviews. Certain high level BellSouth employees are registered, authorized site members. ???????


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The quality of technical support is directly proportional to the number of "ums" "ahs" and "uhs" coming from the tech.

[This message has been edited by rednek tek (edited 02-04-2002).]