Ubuntu and flash cookies

Cybe R. Wizard cyber_wizard at mindspring.com
Thu Sep 30 20:13:05 UTC 2010


On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:19:28 +0200
Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> 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
> 
Oh, just wonderful.  I suppose it will be
browse-in-a-virtual-environment for me from now on.

Cybe R. Wizard
-- 
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