Re: Defeating the supercookie
From: those who know me have no need of my name (not-a-real-address@usa.net)Date: 01/28/02
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From: those who know me have no need of my name <not-a-real-address@usa.net> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:10:35 -0000
<e155108f.0201280730.5cd5029e@posting.google.com> divulged:
>You've probably heard of the Microsoft Media Player "supercookie"
>which can be used by web sites to track you even if you have cookies
>turned off in your web browser.
>
>It seems to me that an easy solution to the supercookie problem would
>be for everyone to set their supercookie id to be the same thing.
>Is this a workable idea? Is anyone out there in a position to make it
>available?
a) doing this might ***-up the drm, making existing content unavailable.
b) you can turn it off in media player, though off is perhaps not the
correct term.
-- okay, have a sig then
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