Log
In
without Cookies
If you log in with your user ID and your password to an auction, a
shop, or any other web site with controlled accesss, usually cookies
are written to your PC and read back by the server. This reduces the
hassle with repeated entry of your personal data before each
instruction you submit to the server.
Cookies are not seriously dangerous, but they enable the server
operator to spy out your PC and your activities in the Internet - not
actually an attractive imagination, but a common habbit.
features
a secured log in without cookies
or even assisting programms (e.g. Java). Absolutely nothing is stored
on your computer. Even if you disable processing of cookies completely,
you still can log in.
If you enter user ID and password in any entry form, you log in and
need not repeat entering these data. You'll log out automatically when
leaving the
site. For more security there is a time
out feature: If entering an item description lasts longer than an hour,
or if you visit one single page longer than 20 minutes, you'll be asked
to log in again. |
Cookies
These are tiny data files, stored in the memory of your computer, to
control your communication with the server. As cookies are no
executable programs, real desasters are not possible. However, cookies
can help to spy out your computer and your activities in the Internet,
e.g. your bidding- or buying characteristics.
Therefore it is common practice of secure computers or networks to
restrict cooky processing or even disable it completely. With such
devices it is troublesome or impossible to visit cooky-based web sites.
Even more this applies to sites loading programs to your computer for
proper operation - this gives no guarantee against desasters.
Anyway, log-in is possible without cookies: Just a key-word in each,
the address line and the server, and a small encrypted file in the
viewed page care for secure communication between you and .
Actually not you nor your computer is identified, but only the page
your browser called from the server.
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