- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:54:13 -0500
- To: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Cc: nathan@webr3.org, Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>, Ashok Malhotra <ashok.malhotra@oracle.com>
On Sep 23, 2010, at 7:04 AM, David Booth wrote: > 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 :( > > 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. > 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. Pat > -- > David Booth, Ph.D. > Cleveland Clinic (contractor) > http://dbooth.org/ > > Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily > reflect those of Cleveland Clinic. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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