On Monday 02 November 2009 09:30:27 pm Anders Johansson wrote:
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
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
Anders... It seems obvious to me that you *didn't* read the article. Your 'ho-hum' attitude toward 'real' cookies is well founded, but, this and related articles show how the 'flookies' are being exchanged, unlike regular cookies and used. In my case, there is a hell of a lot more than my User ID and settings in the files that I can decipher, lordy knows what is in the big ones that I can't because I don't have my magic decoder ring. EVEN IF they are totally as innocent as a 'real' cookie, that they are being put on and used by people in ways that do invade privacy and do not give you a way to eliminate them (unless you can find where they are hidden and use system tools to do it). READ the article, form your own opinion, and it's your machine, do with it as you will, but I am not arguing the merits of 'flookies', only asking for viable alternatives to Adobe. Local shared objects were introduced in Flash Player 6, to allow websites and applications to remember things about a user between that user's visits. A local shared object, by itself, is just information tied to a particular website — it can't do anything to or with the data on your computer. A local shared object is exactly like a browser cookie, except that it can also store data that is more complex than simple text. Third-party cookies and third-party local shared objects are often used by advertisers to anonymously track the sites and ads you view for market research or to present more personalized ad experiences. http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/articles/thirdpartylso/ from the horses mouth is where I got additional information. ComputerWorld magazine has a whole series of articles relating to this and other security issues in case you wish to do some real 'poo-pooing'. With over 6.5 Tb of local storage in my RAID file servers, I'm not particularly afraid of running out of space due to 'flookies', but I live by the adage, I'll give you a buck if you ask for it, but steal a penny and your ass is grass. Flookies are stealing more than pennies IMO. Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org