Supercookie comes on the heels of HTML5! coinkydink or shoddy journalism?

[CptStern]

The supercookie was developed by hacker Samy Kamkar, who in 2005 took down MySpace, which is, I would think, more a venial sin than a mortal one

Simultaneously with the supercookie comes HTML5, a new program that will allow advertisers and other other interested parties (like, say, prospective employers or the government) to track your online movements, purchases, locations if you are browsing the Web from a mobile device, e-mails and photographs for weeks or months back. No tools currently are available to counteract HTML5. It may be that HTML5 will be able to find the supercookies, but it may not.

The only way a user could effectively neutralize HTML5 is to never buy anything using a Web advertisement.

But I don't think anyone will bother. I think the game will go on and on, with HTML6 and "super duper cookie" somewhere on the horizon, and very soon it will turn out that the very most efficient way to surf, text, talk, view and buy will involve a chip planted in your head. And a lot of folks would say, "Yes, I want the iPhone in my brain" (hands-free driving!), and then we will become perfect consumers, getting what we want instantly and talking to all our friends all the time.

what the hell is this guy rambling about? and how the hell did this idiotic drivel get published in a newspaper? certainly an editor would check his facts. or at least you'd think so


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/12/DD1I1FR7S2.DTL#ixzz12RvUAk5s

 

[mindless_moder]

I hear that most versions of internet explorer are impervious to HTML5

 

[99.vikram]

I got rid of my HTLM 5 with my Fire Fox antivirus.

 

[Krynn72]

I implemented the HTML5 into my php javascript for my website, thereby bypassing the Fire Fox antivirus. I can now track where all the visitors go to shop for groceries and whether or not their vehicles' blinkers are currently functional.

 

[No Limit]

This is such a dumb thing to get freaked out over. The "super cookie" exists outside of HTML5, it is nothing new. It's just a way of doing everything you possibly can to remember that person had seen your page (HTML5 adds a few more methods, many others already existed). It will be local to each site for the most part or local to huge advertisers such as google. No matter what you do any site can already take your IP address along with all the pages you visit on that site and store it in their database. In fact most have been doing this for well over a decade to track how many people visit their site.

Why do I care that some "super cookie" out there has my IP address and some of the sites I visited? I bet 80% of the people worried about this have some sort of malware on their system that tracks far more than just their IP and the sites they visit.

And the part in the article about how as long as you don't buy anything online you get around this "super cookie" from HTML5 is by far one of the dumbest things I have ever read from someone trying to report on internet security.

 

[mindless_moder]

You can't be serious.

 

[No Limit]

You can't be serious.

Huh?

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