Company Develops Way to Restore Cookies

Yahoo News and Associated Press ^ | April 6, 2005

[Petronski]

BD, they're combatting the deletion of cookies with PIE:

persistent identification elements.






An A for cleverness, anyway.

[Petronski]

What's next?

CAKE?





Creepy A$$h01es Kompromising Everything?

[Lurker]

Variable Integrated Access Growth Resistance Accelerators. It lengthens and strengthens your system so it can deal with any holes in your security.

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[Petronski]

Creepy Online Computing Kids Seemingly Unstoppably Creating Komputer Errors Reaching Superspeed

[Toto_for_breakfast]

Mookie Tenembaum

It's no use reading the rest of the article, that's all I will remember.

[Cicero]

I just turned this function off in my flash settings.

I think.

I must say, this is all news to me. I had no idea that the flash play had settings.

[eddie willers]

What's that spell? :)

[Constitution Day]

ROTFLMAO!

[Duke Nukum]

If companies weren't sleazy and were honest and didn't try to track folks online, this wouldn't be an issue.

[bd476]

Ahh, gee, Petronski, you made me forget what the article was about... reaching for an animal cracker

[Petronski]

Mookie Tenembaum

That's what I get for getting all drinky and skimming the article...I missed this gem. LOL

[bitt]

Calamity Jane's favorite word.

[bd476]

I wish we could rid of junk mail too. Then imagine companies tying the junk mail to rocks and throwing them through our windows. (no pun intended).

[Petronski]

animal cracker



Asynchronously Nodal Internet-Mounted Attacks Launching Cryptically 'Round Anonymous Cooperative Krackerz Ethernet Realms

[cynwoody]

Well, I just checked my machine. I found exactly one of these "Local Shared Object" thingies. It was stored below my home directory, at:

Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\BPUY2BS9\adx.gainesvillesun.com\ads\GS\fcu.swf

The file contained (note, I use the past tense):

Offset      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7   8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15
00000000   00 BF 00 00 00 40 54 43  53 4F 00 04 00 00 00 00   .¿...@TCSO......
00000016   00 09 75 73 65 72 5F 64  61 74 61 00 00 00 00 00   ..user_data.....
00000032   07 73 65 65 6E 5F 31 36  01 01 00 00 0C 73 65 65   .seen_16.....see
00000048   6E 5F 31 36 5F 64 61 74  65 02 00 09 33 2F 33 31   n_16_date...3/31
00000064   2F 32 30 30 35 00                                  /2005.

Anyone care to speculate on what it means? My guess is it's recording that I've seen a certain ad on the Gainesville Sun's site.

[bd476]

How does one determine the difference between a historical item and a tracking item?

[Petronski]

Hiding behind a shockwave file extension. Interesting.

[bd476]

LOL, Mookie likes Cookies, heh heh. I see what you mean.

[bd476]

LOL, stop it, sides aching.