[SGVLUG] Fw: [Lamp-announce] Meeting this Saturday: Supercookies

[Solomon K. Chang]

Yeah, hopefully, by then, I'll have finished some yarn about the distant planet Skripton, and its brilliant resident scientist, Int-El, who predicted the fate of their dying Sun(tm), prompting him to send his only son to earth.

Then I'll have to come up with some story about how Supercookie hooked up with the next Ubuntu release, Lowest Lion.

Okay, I'll stop.  I think some ears are already bleeding.

Solomon



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From: matti <mathew_2000 at yahoo.com>
To: sgvlug at sgvlug.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 10:07 PM
Subject: [SGVLUG] Fw: [Lamp-announce] Meeting this Saturday: Supercookies


fyi - should be interesting to many here...


--- On Tue, 8/16/11, Solomon K. Chang <skevin521 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Solomon K. Chang <skevin521 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Lamp-announce] Meeting this Saturday: Supercookies
> To: "LAMP-SIG General User Mailing List" <lamp-user at maillist.lampsig.org>, "LAMP-SIG Announce" <lamp-announce at maillist.lampsig.org>
> Date: Tuesday, August 16, 2011, 9:56 PM
> Well met, LampSIGgers,
> 
> There will be a meeting this Saturday, August 20th, at
> 1:00PM.
> 
> The topic will be:
> 
> Supercookies
> By Solomon Chang
> 
> Faster than a viral bulletin...
> More power for your LSOs...
> Able to leap all browsers in a single bound.
> Look! Cached on my drive!
> From a nerd! It's a pain!
> It's Supercookies!
> 
> Supercookies are the next evolution in really annoying
> privacy issues. They act like regular cookies, writing bits
> of tracking information to your browser, but you'll never
> know they were there. They are extremely difficult to delete
> by normal means. They defy clearing your cache. They defy
> erasing your cookies from your browser preferences. They
> don't even show up in your cookie list.  In fact, they are
> COMPLETELY ACCESSIBLE between browsers - a Supercookie
> written to Firefox can be read from Internet Explorer or
> Safari on the SAME MACHINE. It doesn't matter what platform
> you're running... Supercookies can thrive in OS/X, Windows,
> or Linux.  And, they live on your hard drive for, well,
> just about forever.
> 
> Supercookies could have been the 11th plague of Exodus, if
> the Israelites stuck around Egypt for one more day.
> 
> 
> Now, at this point, you should have a little angel version
> of yourself sitting on one shoulder, and a little devil
> version of yourself on the other shoulder. The angel version
> of you should be saying, "That's horrible! How could anyone
> come up with something so evil?"
> 
> The little devil version of you should be asking, "Ooooh.
> How can *I* write supercookies into my web apps?"
> 
> This lecture will appeal to that little devil.  You will
> learn what you need to get started writing Supercookies,
> embedding Supercookie code into your HTML, how Supercookies
> are stored, and best of all, how to get rid of other
> people's Supercookies from your machine!
> 
> Solomon Chang is a Senior System and Database Administrator
> working for Sosbuzz, Inc.. He hates Supercookies, but has
> gotten very good at writing them.  In fact, he has gotten
> very good at doing things he hates, just like a congressman
> does, but will do anything for the right amount of money,
> just like a congressman does.
> 
> LAMPSIG meets on the third Saturday of every month, at
> 1:00PM at the Thom Bradley Center.  The TBC is located at:
> 5213 Pico Blvd.
> Los Angeles, CA. 90019
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