“The Wall Street Journal has ‘a pretty useful section tracking privacy issues, privacy protection tools and the threats thereof from online marketers, from the point of view and on the technical level of a relatively savvy consumer,’ says blogger Kevin Fogarty. The downside: He discovered that reading two stories from the WSJ’s privacy section left behind deletion-resistant Flash cookies.”
— Slashdot
“Google security researcher Michael Zalewski posted a cautionary tale for software engineers: amusing historical overview of all the security problems with HTTP [categorySeeAlso slug=”cookies”], including an impressive collection of issues we won’t be able to fix. Pretty amazing that modern web commerce uses a mechanism so hacky that does not even have a proper specification.”
— Slashdot
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