[olug] just when you thought you deleted them all....flashcookies.

[Awais Khan]

LoL youku sucks hard

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:41 PM, <charles.bird at powerdnn.com> wrote:

> Ya, as a good test, visit myspace :) a lot of nasty crap there, or better
> yet youku to watch some choppy startrek episodes
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DYNATRON tech <dynatron at gmail.com>
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> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:37:29
> To: Omaha Linux User Group<olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] just when you thought you deleted them all....flash
>        cookies.
>
>
> i used ~ in the script, so it is current user specific. if you get results
> as root, then stop running firefox as root. every website you browse will
> have root access to your machine.
>
> i'm curious to hear some individual experiences, or modifications you would
> suggest to the script.
>
> personally, i had flash cookies from websites that i was unaware of
> visiting...
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us> wrote:
>
> > Uhhhh, there's a reason for that:
> >
> > Cookies are per user, it doesn't matter if you're talking about the
> > traditional web browser cookies or these new-fangled Flash cookies.
> >
> > The only way it would have returned any cookies for the root account
> > would be if you did any web browsing with your root account.
> >
> > Awais Khan wrote:
> > > so it wont work under sudo, will work as just your self, (which is just
> > one
> > > less step to do.)
> >
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