As Big PC Brother Watches, Users Encounter Frustration - Businesses have tried to explain consumers' unwillingness to take steps to protect privacy by saying people do not truly care. But those who study the issue say the real picture is more complex. Regrettably, the community of computer scientists of which I am a part has been overly relaxed in the deployment of technology without careful scrutiny of the long-term implications of our work.
Cookies are but one example of the technological shortcomings of our Digital Village.
Netscape and Microsoft have taken different approaches to building privacy protection into their product designs. Cookie Collection Project - This site is devoted to the analysis of cookie authentication schemes. You can help us in this endeavor by donating your cookies. Our objective is to catalog and analyze the various ways of authenticating users on the Web. While there are many ways to implement authentication, we have found that cookie-based authentication schemes are the the least understood.