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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. Anti-Evercookie by Madm3rlin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Who else sees this leading to awesome exploits down the road? What is the best way to avoid the evercookie?

  2. That's a virus then. by zaax · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hopefully anyone or company that uses these codes will be hung drawn and quartered like all virus makers should be