Another piece of state management, another way to track... from David Singer on 2012-11-19 (public-privacy@w3.org from October to December 2012)

From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:12:10 -0800
To: "public-privacy@w3.org list)" <public-privacy@w3.org>
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Of course, that whenever the browser remembers something -- in this case, a replacement URL because of an HTTP 'moved permanently' response -- it can be used as a tracker.

<http://elie.im/blog/security/tracking-users-that-block-cookies-with-a-http-redirect/>
<http://www.scatmania.org/2012/04/24/visitor-tracking-without-cookies/>



David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Monday, 19 November 2012 17:12:45 UTC