Nevercookie Eats Evercookies

wiredmikey writes "Anonymizer, Inc. has developed Anonymizer Nevercookie, a free Firefox plugin that protects against the Evercookie, a javascript API built and made available by Samy Kamkar (same guy who brought you the Samy Worm and XSS Hacking to Determine Physical Location) who set out to prove that the more you store and the more places you store it, the harder it is for users to control a Web site's ability to uniquely identify their computer. The plugin extends Firefox's private browsing mode by preventing Evercookies from identifying and tracking users."

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Re:virtual machines

[couchslug]

I just use Linux for most of my surfing, but light VMs are very easy to set up and worth doing for the education.

I like Portable VirtualBox for Windows use because I can make a self-extracting .rar of the complete program with VMs for backup:

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/portable-virtualbox.html

Grab a light Linux distro like DSL (small download, speedy performance), and install to VM from the .iso:

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

You can then play with MANY operating systems, and if they screw up, delete their VM. If you have bigger problems, reload by extracting the backup. :)