¿Cómo se pueden utilizar las cookies en su contra?

How cookies can be used against you?

A cookie can be used to identify you to a website. It doesn’t reveal personal information (because the data in the cookie came from the website’s server in the first place) – just identifies you as the same browser that visited earlier.

Cookies can be used by web servers to identity and track users as they navigate different pages on a website, and to identify users returning to a website.

Yes, a user can manipulate cookies if they’re stored on their computer.

Accepting cookies will give you the best user experience on the website, while declining cookies could potentially interfere with your use of the site. For example, online shopping. Cookies enable the site to keep track of all of the items that you’ve placed in your cart while you continue to browse.

Is it possible to prevent someone with physical access to the machine to copy the cookie and reuse it on another machine and thus stealing the session? This risk is inherent in using cookies to authenticate sessions: the cookie is a bearer token, anyone who can present the cookie is authenticated.

Most Web Applications use cookies to manage the session for a user and allow you to stay logged in even if the browser was closed. Lets pretend we did everything in the book to make sure the cookie itself is save.

Lets pretend we did everything in the book to make sure the cookie itself is save. Is it possible to prevent someone with physical access to the machine to copy the cookie and reuse it on another machine and thus stealing the session?

Cookies can be used to invade your privacy and track you around the internet. But what are cookies and how do they work? They were initially invented to make our lives easier and are used to keep us logged in and to store things like shopping carts and preferences on our computers instead of on servers.