Re: Why does a Flash Cookie from wildlifecontrolexperts.com keep getting set on my machine?

[Larry Seltzer <larry () larryseltzer com>]

On the other hand, they are much harder to remove on Firefox or IE. But if
you just go to the global settings config you can tell it not to allow any
local storage.

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Ned Fleming
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 2:21 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Why does a Flash Cookie from
wildlifecontrolexperts.com keep getting set on my machine?

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:35:06 -0400, Larry Seltzer <larry () larryseltzer com>
wrote:

> FYI, go to the evercookie site and you'll get one from samy.pl. I
> tested this in Chrome and the cookie manager there seems to integrate
> the Flash cookies, so when you delete the samy.pl root it all goes
> away. They show up as "Local Storage" and you can't view the contents,
> but you can remove them.

Oh, dear me. I should have sent people to this link:

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2010/09/the_cookies_you.
html

- or -

http://bit.ly/cMHzft

Beg parding, your honor.

-- 

Ned

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