[plug] My Life as Greg Mildenhall

[The Thought Assassin]

On Fri, 12 May 2000, Christian wrote:
> Visiting www.linuxtoday.com today I got a surprise when it told me that
> I was logged on as "Greg Mildenhall"!  Recognising the name, I figured
> it was something to do with the fact I was on Murdoch Uni's network and
> Greg (for memory) is on UWAs but I would normally have expected that
> being "logged on" to a web site would have involved a cookie of some
> sort so I don't really see how it could have happened.
I regularly find myself logged in as someone else (though I've not seen
your name come up) it would seem that the pages have been cached, and the
two unis share HTTP caches. AFAIK, it shouldn't be possible to alter
someone else's settings, though there are no guarantees. (certainly
onelist has had this problem in the recent past) One thing you do if it
bothers you is to alter your linuxtoday prefs to make the page
uncacheable, but I don't really consider it worth the effort.

> (BTW, Greg, aren't you supposed to be writing up your Honours
> thesis at the moment, not browsing LinuxToday...? *grin*)
Ummm, yeah, and come to think odfit, I probably shouldn't be reading the
plug list, either...

-Greg Mildenhall