That UK.gov Firefox cookie leakage snafu explained If you've used the latest version of Firefox to visit a UK government website in the last few weeks, you may have noticed something unusual in the browser address bar. Instead of highlighting, for example, direct.gov.uk, as you might expect from Firefox 6.0's new domain-conscious security behaviour, only the gov.uk portion is …
You can't use a noun as a noun? What on Earth are you talking about?
Perhaps snafu is now an anacronym, like radar, and laser, and more correctly treated as a simple noun. That's certainly how one of your fine American dictionaries treats it:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snafu
And here's how one of your fine American newspapers uses it:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/06/microsoft_patch_to_fix_firefox.html
Not sure if it's still the case, but there was a nasty situation a while back where advertisers were writing cookies to the .co.uk domain which were then cross-readable by any UK website.
Of course, that also meant they could be deleted by any UK website, so some of my sites might run a bit of javascript that might remove cookies that are aimed at the .co.uk domain level.
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