Flash Cookies and Tor.

Orionjur Tor-admin tor-admin at orionjurinform.com
Tue Aug 3 04:20:12 UTC 2010


andrew at torproject.org wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:27:27PM +0100, pumpkin at cotse.net wrote 1.5K bytes in 29 lines about:
>> OK, to continue this - in the past I did use Tor with Flash enabled after 
>> having Flash cookies on the hard drive from surfing when I was not using  
>> Tor.  In your opinion, is it likely that some websites would use these  
>> Flash cookies to realise that the person surfing with Tor is the same  
>> person who was surfing days / weeks / months earlier when not using Tor?  
>> Would they then be able to connect non-Tor IPs to the person currently  
>> using Tor (me)?
> 
> Yes.
> http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/new-cookie-technologies-harder-see-and-remove-wide
> 


And are they possible to connect non-Tor IPs to the person currently
using Tor if the browser are running under UNIX-user transparently
torified throwgh firewall?

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