Ubuntu and flash cookies

[Nils Kassube]

Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> Here's a news article about flash cookies:
> http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/110838/cookies-cause-bit
> ter-backlash?mod=family-kids_parents
> 
> Does anyone have knowledge of them and whether they affect ubuntu or
> Linux browsers/software in general?

Sure Ubuntu is affected if you have flash installed. But flash cookies
aren't really new. Here is something even more sinister:
<http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/The-zombie-cookie-1095232.html>


Nils