Re: Evercookie: Indestructible cookies

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Nathan <nathan@webr3.org> wrote:
> Alan Ruttenberg wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> They are called Adblock and NoScript. Also see Ghostery.
>> All free.
>
> are we sure this shouldn't be in the domain of the browser vendors, appears
> to me that the data stored and cached by each domain should be sandboxed and
> easily removable by users.

We (I) am not sure. I would be happier if the browser vendors did
this, as naive users might not install these plugins. I was responding
solely to Pat's business proposition :)

-Alan

>
> Best,
>
> Nathan
>

Received on Thursday, 23 September 2010 18:13:10 UTC