- From: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:49:39 -0400
- To: "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>, Ashok Malhotra <ashok.malhotra@oracle.com>
Following up on [1], I note this [2]:
" evercookie is a javascript API available that produces
extremely persistent cookies in a browser. Its goal
is to identify a client even after they've removed standard
cookies, Flash cookies (Local Shared Objects or LSOs), and
others.
evercookie accomplishes this by storing the cookie data in
several types of storage mechanisms that are available on
the local browser. Additionally, if evercookie has found the
user has removed any of the types of cookies in question, it
recreates them using each mechanism available.
Specifically, when creating a new cookie, it uses the
following storage mechanisms when available:
- Standard HTTP Cookies
- Local Shared Objects (Flash Cookies)
- Storing cookies in RGB values of auto-generated, force-cached
PNGs using HTML5 Canvas tag to read pixels (cookies) back out
- Storing cookies in Web History (seriously. see FAQ)
- HTML5 Session Storage
- HTML5 Local Storage
- HTML5 Global Storage
- HTML5 Database Storage via SQLite"
Noah
[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2010Sep/0029.html
[2] http://samy.pl/evercookie/
Received on Wednesday, 22 September 2010 16:50:10 UTC