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by londons_explore 1399 days ago
There is a solution to this....

Cookies should always be used in conjunction with a TLS Session ID.

If the session ID doesn't match, then throw away the cookies.

Session ID is designed to be hard to steal - in some clients, it actually uses keys from the TPM to derive the session ID - so even if someone steals the browser cookie jar, there is no way they can recreate the session ID.

Sadly today very few sites check the session ID