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Re:Is it OK to hold credit card numbers in cookies, Santander? by chris_wot on Monday October 15, 2012 @04:16PM (#4656957)
That's not how secure session management works.
Re:Is it OK to hold credit card numbers in cookies, Santander? by cheald on Monday October 15, 2012 @11:38PM (#4658353)
It's plenty secure in the sense that you can't forge a session. It's not secure in the sense that the data is inaccessible if you know how to base64 decode a cookie.

If you're using cookie sessions, you should know better than to store sensitive information in the session.

Re:Is it OK to hold credit card numbers in cookies, Santander? by chris_wot on Tuesday October 16, 2012 @06:00AM (#4659049)
In other words, because they are holding sensitive information in their cookies encoded only via base64 it's not secure. In other words, what I said.