Flash Cookies and Tor.

[andrew at torproject.org]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:27:27PM +0100, pumpkin at cotse.net wrote 1.5K bytes in 29 lines about:
> OK, to continue this - in the past I did use Tor with Flash enabled after 
> having Flash cookies on the hard drive from surfing when I was not using  
> Tor.  In your opinion, is it likely that some websites would use these  
> Flash cookies to realise that the person surfing with Tor is the same  
> person who was surfing days / weeks / months earlier when not using Tor?  
> Would they then be able to connect non-Tor IPs to the person currently  
> using Tor (me)?

Yes.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/new-cookie-technologies-harder-see-and-remove-wide

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