> I hope Apple patches this soon and forces people to opt in to third party cookies. The WSJ also ran a blog post about this which says (at the very end): "An

> I hope Apple patches this soon and forces people to opt in to third party cookies. The WSJ also ran a blog post about this which says (at the very end): "An update to the software that underlies Safari has closed the loophole that allows cookies to be set after the automatic submission of invisible forms. Future public versions of Safari could incorporate that update. The people who handled the proposed change, according to software documents: two engineers at Google." "software documents" is linked to http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/92142 http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/92142 So it appears that Google engineers have already closed this loophole.