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Should I always log out of websites?
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Mar 15, 20265154 viewsConfidence Score0%
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This came up in a conversation between my mom and I and it caused me to reconsider it. I wouldn't be surprised if someone had already asked this here, but I couldn't find any such questions, so here 'tis. I guess I had mostly dismissed in my mind the idea that you need to log out of websites, citin…
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Staying logged in does make it easier for someone to break in to your account, because they could sniff the cookie and then use it to pretend to be logged in themselves. Logging out would theoretically render that cookie useless. However, if someone…
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