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Introducing the Invulnerable Evercookie

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the evil-and-clever dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Using eight different techniques and locations, a 'security' guy has developed a cookie that is very, very hard to delete. If just one copy of the cookie remains, the other locations are rebuilt. My favorite storage location is in 'RGB values of auto-generated, force-cached PNGs using HTML5 Canvas tag to read pixels (cookies) back out' — awesome."

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  1. Re:nietzsche quote applies: by MozeeToby · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Rather than disabling and trying to defeat all these tracking mechanisms I think it would be easier to flood them with false information. Someone should set up a cookie sharing site and FF extension that trades (safe, non-identifying) cookies amongst all the users of that extension. Why yes, I did visit mylittlepony.com directly between visits to journalofparticlephysics.edu and horsesluts9.com, why do you ask?