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Re: Firefox' privacy mode not so private
From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:04:29 -0800
Date sent: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:21:55 +1200 From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
David Lodge wrote:[1] I think we should set up some sort of cookie/LSO bank: everybody puts on a marketing cookie with the same UID, mess up the marketing figures summat rotten :-)Yes, I know you can nuke cookies between sessions or more often as suits your personal tastes, but then you have to go and reset several settings at Google to get it working usefully, rather than the ugly defaults.
Actually, with the LSOs, and the clearing tool at http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_ manager07.html , the loss of LSO cookies seems to be permanent. I started to delete them individually, realized how many there were, and nuked the whole lot. Now all the sites that I know set them (like the YouTube volume settings) are permanently unset. Doesn't matter how many times I go back to YouTube and bring the volume down, it doesn't set any LSO cookies any more, and YouTube is always full volume whenever I go back. ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade () vcn bc ca slade () victoria tc ca rslade () computercrime org Anything a faculty member can learn, a student can easily. - Richard Wesley Hamming http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://twitter.com/rslade http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/NoticeBored _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: Firefox' privacy mode not so private Nick FitzGerald (Sep 15)