[590] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: SSL weakness affecting links from pa
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve)
Sat Apr 19 18:13:32 1997
To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, tomw@netscape.com, cryptography@c2.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 19 Apr 1997 09:34:07 CDT."
<199704191434.JAA01685@homeport.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 13:38:03 -0700
From: Steve <steve@edmweb.com>
> If the Netscape folks would integrate digicash into Communicator,
> then I could program my browser to only send referer to sites that
> paid for the information, and rent cookie space. Want your cookie to
> live till 1999? Thats 24 months, at 50 cents per month...do you want
> to pay?
That would only work until someone abuses it. People could create web
robots to run around selling referers and several gigabytes of
worthless cookie space. Worthless, because nobody cares about the web
browsing habits of J. Random Robot, and they certainly don't want to
blow $50 e-bucks on the bot's repeated visits.
