Cache cookies: new super cookie method?

MrBrian · Jan 14, 2015

From thesis "Cache Cookies: Searching for Hidden Browser Storage" (2014):

Abstract

Various ways are known to persistently store information in a browser to achieve cookie-like behaviour. These methods are collectively known as ‘super cookies’. This research looks into various super cookie methods. Attention is given to the means a user has to regulate data storage and what is allowed by the cookiewet.

The main goal of this research is to determine whether a browser’s cache can be used to store and retrieve a user’s unique identification. The results show that this is the case, and these ‘cache cookies’ use a method so fundamentally entangled with the cache that there is no easy way to prevent them.

Because of cache cookies and other methods, the only way to prevent all tracking methods is to disable cache, history, cookies and plug-in storage.
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Chapter 4 is the beginning of the allegedly new super cookie method.

Thesis download: hxxp://www.cs.ru.nl/bachelorscripties/2014/Patrick_Verleg___3049701___Cache_Cookies_searching_for_hidden_browser_storage.pdf .

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