Comments on: Cookies, Supercookies and Ubercookies: Stealing the Identity of Web Visitors

By: Jeremy Moskowitz

Jeremy Moskowitz — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:50:31 +0000

Here’s my input. A short video for how to stop Supercookies on Windows systems. Geared for IT geeks http://t.co/bRsiKpJ

By: Anže

Anže — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:02:47 +0000

I tried to make my browser protect my pricacy (by deleting cookies, supercookies, ubercookies,…) but found it *very* difficult to do properly because you have no feedback So I setup a site that tries every method of tracking I could think of and tells you the results:
http://www.canyoutrackme.com/

BTW, nice blog – if you check the “links” section you will find yourself very high on the list. ;)

By: Yet Another Identity Stealing Bug. Will Creeping Normalcy be the Result? « 33 Bits of Entropy

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:39:15 +0000

[...] should be familiar to readers of this blog. I’ve recently written about doing this via history stealing, then a bug in Google spreadsheets, and now we have this. While the spreadsheets bug was fixed, the [...]

By: Tess Elliott

Tess Elliott — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:52:59 +0000

This is depressing: I went directly to Firefox to download “Safe History” and it is not compatible with the newest version! Any other ideas? Do I need to wipe my history continually?

By: Jim B

Jim B — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:03:59 +0000

Firefox trunk just plugged this 10 year old hole:

http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2010/03/31/plugging-the-css-history-leak/

By: Benlog » Protecting against web history sniffing attacks: an alternative

Benlog » Protecting against web history sniffing attacks: an alternative — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:18:56 +0000

[...] by putting up a few links and checking to see how your browser is rendering them. Arvind explained the shockingly bad outcome of this small flaw a few weeks [...]

By: Cookies, Supercookies and Ubercookies: Stealing the Identity of Web Visitors — MPThree Consulting Inc.

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:02:43 +0000

[...] Cookies, Supercookies and Ubercookies: Stealing the Identity of Web Visitors A web analytics dream: keeping visitors from being anonymous. If you’re not a web analyst, don’t read this–you’ll cry at how much your life is an open book. [...]

By: History Stealing: It’s All Shades of Grey « 33 Bits of Entropy

History Stealing: It’s All Shades of Grey « 33 Bits of Entropy — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:33:36 +0000

[...] 9, 2010 Previous articles in this series showed that ‘Ubercookies’ can enable websites to learn the identity of any visitor by [...]

By: How Google Docs Leaks Your Identity « 33 Bits of Entropy

How Google Docs Leaks Your Identity « 33 Bits of Entropy — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:11:45 +0000

[...] In the previous two articles in this Ubercookies series, I showed how an arbitrary website that you visit can learn [...]

By: Arvind

Arvind — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:03:28 +0000

I limited the max threading depth because the column width is too narrow.

There are other researchers apparently working with the Chrome people on related issues. I do plan to get in touch with them soon-ish.