Undeletable cookies

[Ansgar Wiechers]

On 2011-02-18 Irratar wrote:
> I have just found a site that can recognize me when I re-accessed it
> after I deleted all private data, toggled Torbutton and restarted Tor.
> 
> http://samy.pl/evercookie/
> 
> Of course, it isn't a Tor problem, but I think it's better to know for
> these who are interested in privacy. many sites may use the same
> technology stealthy. I will try to discover more about how does it
> keep my private information. So far this site seems to forgets me when
> I disable JavaScript, but maybe it just can't display the proper
> number.

This is old news.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evercookie

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
-- 
"All vulnerabilities deserve a public fear period prior to patches
becoming available."
--Jason Coombs on Bugtraq
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