Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2225 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajh@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 03 November 2009 02:54:35 Richard wrote:
> Okay… That’s a pretty scary cookie. As it is right now, the cookies we’re
>  so deadly afraid of

I'm not afraid of them. What exactly do you think a cookie can do?

>  can store a maximum of 4 kb of information, 

What do you think will be stored there? For tracking purposes, all you need is 
an ID. Let's say 128 bits. The rest can be stored on their servers. Using 
hundreds of K on your machine may sound 'scary', but it adds absolutely 
nothing from a security standpoint, I consider it an annoyance, nothing more

And looking at the files I have under .macromedia, it is clearly being used as 
a cache for data objects, and for stored settings. I don't see anything 
special there. Most of the files are plaintext anyway so you can see what is 
stored.

As with regular cookies, I don't see what the big deal is. As long as a domain 
can't request cookies from other domains they can only ever track what you do 
on their site and not what you do anywhere else (including on sites where they 
supply advertisements), so what is the problem?

> I found 'flash cookies' from a bunch of places I know never had 'videos'

Flash is much more than just videos. Almost all games I play online are flash, 
and just about all advertising these days seems to be flash.

Can you point to any specific dangers with this (other than potentially 
running out of disk space, which is annoying enough but hardly a security 
issue)?

Anders
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