What does "Remember Me" mean?
When you sign in using your Username and Password, your browser can "remember" this
information. Check the box and you won't have to sign in each time you come
back. (We may ask you to re-enter your password if you've been away from wirenet.org
for too long.)
Important: You should always remember your WAI membership username and password
or write them down in a safe place. For your protection, we may ask you to
re-enter
your WAI membership username and password when you access certain personalization
services like your Account Information.
What if I change my mind?
You can log in again and choose whether your browser "remembers" or not.
How does this work?
We do this with something called persistent cookies.
What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a very small text file placed on your hard drive by a Web Page
server. It is essentially your identification card, and cannot be executed
as code or deliver viruses. It is uniquely yours and can only be read by the
server that gave it to you.
Following is a brief outline of information on cookies:
- Can cookies be used to get a "snap shot" of my hard drive? Is this done?
and how? Cookies cannot be used to get data or view data off your hard drive.
A
server can only get data from the cookie it wrote to the cookie file. The
server must
be on the same domain from which the cookie was set.
- Can someone from one site access the cookie information written by another
site? A site can only access a cookie that has been set from its own domain,
It cannot access any other cookies from your computer.
- Is there a way to see the cookies that a web site has set?
Cookies are stored in memory until you exit your browser, so it's
not possible
to see the current cookies you've accepted until you quit. If you type
JavaScript:alert(document.cookie); into the address bar, when you are logged
onto a site, it is possible to
see the cookies which have been set from that domain. For example, if
you log onto
the WAI site and type the above command, you should see today's date
as well as an internal tracking number that is we use to look up your
individual account information.
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