Re: Evercookie: Indestructible cookies

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us> wrote:
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> On Sep 23, 2010, at 7:04 AM, David Booth wrote:
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>> On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 11:46 +0100, Nathan wrote:
>>> Effectively all this means that unless everything is cleared, history,
>>> caches, local storage, plugins and all for every domain after every
>>> request then a user can be tracked over time and across different sites :(
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>> IMO it also means that the perpetrators in this company belong in jail,
>> as their techniques are clearly intended to thwart the user's explicit
>> attempts for privacy.
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> Well, yes, but that behavior is not criminal, of course. However, there seems to me to be an opportunity here for some enterprising person to sell cookie-shredding software which attacks these things and eradicates them.You get to use it three times for free and then the licence is a mere $5 a month.

They are called Adblock and NoScript. Also see Ghostery.
All free.
-Alan

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> Pat
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>> David Booth, Ph.D.
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>> Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily
>> reflect those of Cleveland Clinic.
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