UOSA IRC Chat

[Mens Rea]

How come, even though my browser deletes all cookies, or if I take my laptop another town so I'm on a new IP address, the IRC pop-up window always remembers my nickname?

I am scared of big brother.

[MatronDeWinter]

It's Flash, clear your browser all you want, it won't help usually.

Try this link

[Mens Rea]

Several services even use the surreptitious data storage to reinstate traditional cookies that a user deleted, which is called ‘re-spawning’ in homage to video games where zombies come back to life even after being “killed,” the report found. So even if a user gets rid of a website’s tracking cookie, that cookie’s unique ID will be assigned back to a new cookie again using the Flash data as the “backup.”

Even the Whitehouse.gov showed up in the report, with researchers reporting they found a Flash cookie with the name “userId.” The site does say in its privacy policy that it uses tracking technology but it does not mention Flash or tell users how to get rid of the Flash cookie.

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/ ... ink-again/

[Corbin]

ccleaner.

[Zorce]

ccleaner.

ftw