But we're betting the cookie man can do better in 2000.

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When the user visits that supposedly secure site, the man-in-the-middle hacker feeds the site the cookie he already downloaded.

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Quiroz-Lopez was dressed as the Cookie Monster character to make money by posing for photos with passersby, according to police, who added that there was no connection between the man and the TV series "Sesame Street, " which counts Cookie Monster among its characters.

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After the stridently messy Cookie and a few forays into spacey jazz, the recent The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams includes guest appearances by everyone from Pat Metheny to Oumou Sangare.

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