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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. Reminds me of IE by bogaboga · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This cookie that is very hard to delete reminds me of IE bundled with Windows XP that I also failed to remove from my system. Even after manually deleting the program, typing `iexplore` at the run prompt would fire off IE without a hitch. What is man to do?

  2. Rage! by Jugalator · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    FFFFFUUUUUUUUU...

    I just had a rage guy moment here. >:-(

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  3. Re:I just ate a cookie... by TaoPhoenix · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Jesus spoke from the heavens. He wants his cookie that can feed the multitudes back.

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  4. There is ALWAYS another way by way2trivial · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://cookies.lcs.mit.edu/encyclopedia.html

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  5. The horcrux of cookies by Flexagon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    'Nuf said.