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It's true, but slightly misleading. If you open firefox and browse to a few sites, it will send that cookie. If you then take your computer down to the coffee
by nickodell 11y ago
It's true, but slightly misleading.
If you open firefox and browse to a few sites, it will send that cookie. If you then take your computer down to the coffee shop and keep browsing, even if you don't log into anything, it will still send that cookie in the clear.
There are other ways that the NSA can figure out a list of IP addresses you've been using, but this is 1) totally silent, and 2) is common to a lot of systems.