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Local Shared Objects: The Cookies You Never Knew That Existed |
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Source: Becoming Paranoid - Posted by Eckie Silapaswang
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Many users, specially those who are worried about privacy, already know cookies: how they work, where are they saved and, most imprtantly, how to delete them. Most browsers include an utility to manage them, blocking or deleting the ones we don’t want.
But even if you are actively deleting cookies, you might still be leaving something behind. Local Shared Objects are the implementation of cookies done by Adobe Flash. So, if you have this software installed (and most people do) these Flash cookies are resting on your hard disk, maybe forever.
Read this full article at Becoming Paranoid
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