{"id":92,"date":"2008-10-15T13:10:40","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T10:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2008-10-15T13:10:40","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T10:10:40","slug":"beware-flash-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/2008\/10\/beware-flash-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware: Flash Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you read it on Slashdot, you can skip this post \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Some guy writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imasuper.com\/66\/technology\/flash-cookies-the-silent-privacy-killer\">a flash web privacy thing<\/a> with high importance, that I believe many people (incl. me) have never heard about.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line: the browser options \"delete all cookies\" or \"clear all private data\" are not doing 100% of the job. Flash local data can be deleted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/support\/documentation\/en\/flashplayer\/help\/settings_manager07.html\">here (on Macromedia.com)<\/a><sup>[1]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, you're using <a href=\"http:\/\/flashblock.mozdev.org\/\">flashblock<\/a>, right? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>[1]<\/strong> I wonder how they secure that thing: after all it's a flash app with privileges for messing with the client's settings!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you read it on Slashdot, you can skip this post \ud83d\ude42 Some guy writes about a flash web privacy thing with high importance, that I believe many people (incl. me) have never heard about. Bottom line: the browser options &#8220;delete all cookies&#8221; or &#8220;clear all private data&#8221; are not doing 100% of the job. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[42,90,202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}