Cookies and Security – How much is enough?

Cookies is one of the ways the web has evolved into a more secure place though it is quite archaic today, it was the foundation of the web during the rise in popularity of the entity we call the internet. Many people these cookies can be useful such as the ability to have pre-set passwords and personal information filled in when verification is needed by a page and many more but with rising concern on privacy and other security issues that have arisen from downloaded payload of malicious attacks by malware, people tend to delete them for security’s sake. Government’s have been using them to validate people who access their sites and it is used by search giants such as Google for its analytics system that tracks the number of visits a site gets from the internet may they be returning visitors or new hits to come up with a graphical picture of the usability of a page.
This system may not always be accurate for as we know from previous activity by malware, spam and other malware tends to promote sites that are forcefully visited without our consent from annoying popups and hidden code that leads you to harmful sites. Governments are trying to make sense of the cookies they use and that of third-party providers to come up with a picture of their true performance on and off the web, but they are getting mixed results all over. The debate whether they are doing good or not may not be clear but the net being a dynamic place, people have been given the option to control the web and their browsers the way they want to use them. Customizable browsers are becoming a headache for evaluation for deleting cookies can give a result as a unique hit rather than a returning visitor, or even a frequent user, so a more accurate way of tracking user statistics is being sought, for them to gauge the effectivity of their web sites and the quality of service they are providing through them in the process.