Thread: Kindle cookies?
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Old 11-11-2010, 10:29 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by paperwastage View Post
Kindle 3 using wifi... unsafe obviously... if you go through https, it should be safer

the kindle 3 HAS cookies stored... dont understand ur question about cookies passed
It's quite possible that I missunderstood what's happening after I read this article:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente...tml?tk=mod_rel

It seems like the way Firesheep works is to snag a cookie from a site you access from a public access point--hopefully not your bank--and then the black hat uses it later to spoof your identity at the site that sent you the cookie. So I wondered if the Kindle receives cookies and stores them to authenticate you at later visits.

I was thinking that maybe Amazon burned all but the IP address of the Kindle into the CPU or something (at the factory) so they didn't need to pass a cookie that could be used to access your actual account.

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