Communiquez avec les autres et partagez vos connaissances professionnelles

Inscrivez-vous ou connectez-vous pour rejoindre votre communauté professionnelle.

Suivre

What is a fundamental weakness of using cookies?

user-image
Question ajoutée par Sami Abdel Razeq , Marketing Manager , Best Rent A Car
Date de publication: 2015/01/29
Sami Abdel Razeq
par Sami Abdel Razeq , Marketing Manager , Best Rent A Car

Thank you all for your great answers, the aim of the question was to show the weakness of using cookies as data source to understand website visitors behavior and that will be:

 

Cookies only identify machines ( they do not identify people unless you have some way of tying that cookie information back to a specific person.)

 

Thank you

Amr Abulnaga
par Amr Abulnaga , Scrum Master , Cegedim

Allowing Hackers to find a gateway to get the data transferred through the cookies

Rahaf Nawash
par Rahaf Nawash , Front End Engineer , Atypon Systems Inc.

Its kinda not clear here who is using the cookies, you have both the user behind the screen  and the developer of the web application..

 

if we are talking about the user (not the developer) the biggest drawback of enabling cookies here is the privacy concern, it helps data to be intruded, in best cases by advertisers and worst cases by those who want to know more about you for evil purposes.

As a developer ... cookies have magnificent importance however a developer should not rely heavily on them since users can either disable them or delete them , thus a major loss of the functionality of the site. Also cookies exists as a plain text on the client machine allowing anyone to manipulate them which introduces a security risk.

 

you can benefit from a similar question asked here on bayt.com : http://www.bayt.com/en/specialties/q/82346/what-help-do-we-get-from-internet-cookie/?feed=answers#answer_277431

 

Aqeel Ahmed
par Aqeel Ahmed , Lecturer Computer science , Government Employee

Cookies occupy storage space

More Questions Like This

Avez-vous besoin d'aide pour créer un CV ayant les mots-clés recherchés par les employeurs?