Re: flash cookies

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Am Dienstag, 8. September 2009 18:51:16 schrieb Les:
> Have all of you seen this:
>
> http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=2299&tag=nl.e036
>
> It appears that Adobe flash can generate its own form of cookie and even
> respawn HTTP cookies after your browser closes.
>
> I don't know yet if this affects our Fedora machines, but what a sneaky
> piece of crap.
>
> Regards,
> Les H

Yeah, they've been doing that for a while. If you're using the Adobe Flash 
player, you're affected.

> but what a sneaky piece of crap.
I agree. But this way they're sure the cookies can be stored platform- and 
browser-independently. There is a Firefox extension to remove them 
automatically:
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/6623

Regards,
Julian

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