Re: Evercookie: Indestructible cookies

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

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