Re: How may know about Flash "Supercookies"?

[G. Morgan]

hal@invalidated.parking.here.com wrote:

>How many knew about this?

It's been known for a year or so.


>http://www.fightidentitytheft.com/bl...removal-almost
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>Here is the adobe settings to reset things.
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>http://www.macromedia.com/support/do...manager09.html
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>Here is a freebie I've used for this problem.
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>http://www.flashcookiecleaner.com/


I use the Firefox Plug-in "Better Privacy". It deletes LSO's on exit
(except the ones you want to keep).

[~BD~]

G. Morgan wrote:
> hal@invalidated.parking.here.com wrote:
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>> How many knew about this?
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> It's been known for a year or so.


Microsoft says .........

In response to recent attention on "supercookies" in the media, we
wanted to share more detail on the immediate action we took to address
this issue, as well as affirm our commitment to the privacy of our
customers. According to researchers, including Jonathan Mayer at
Stanford University, "supercookies" are capable of re-creating users'
cookies or other identifiers after people deleted regular cookies. Mr.
Mayer identified Microsoft as one among others that had this code, and
when he brought his findings to our attention we promptly investigated.

We determined that the cookie behavior he observed was occurring under
certain circumstances as a result of older code that was used only on
our own sites, and was already scheduled to be discontinued. We
accelerated this process and quickly disabled this code. At no time did
this functionality cause Microsoft cookie identifiers or data associated
with those identifiers to be shared outside of Microsoft. We are
committed to providing choice when it comes to the collection and use of
customer information, and we have no plans to develop or deploy any such
"supercookie" mechanisms.

Microsoft has strong privacy standards that govern the development and
deployment of our products and services. We work hard to build privacy
into products, and we also engage with government, industry, academia
and public interest groups to develop more effective privacy and data
protection measures.

- Mike Hintze, Associate General Counsel, Regulatory Affairs, Microsoft

https://blogs.technet.com/b/privacyi...ed-on-msn.aspx