"Reset Safari" doesn't really clean all the cookies of Safari web browser

Lance Cottrell loki at obscura.com
Fri Jan 10 10:08:01 PST 2014


Does the script address Flash object storage and other active content data stores?

Browser fingerprint is also an issue. 

	-Lance

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Lance Cottrell
loki at obscura.com



On Jan 10, 2014, at 6:36 AM, Klokanek <klokanek at eldar.cz> wrote:

> Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 08:38:50PM +0100, rysiek pise:
>> Dnia czwartek, 9 stycznia 2014 18:25:22 Klokanek pisze:
>>> http://eldar.cz/kangaroo/binarni-sxizofrenie/apple-safari-cookies-clean.html
>> 
>> I think that's actually the case with all the browsers. Consider:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evercookie
> 
> True.
> 
>> We need to create a way to easily delete everything related to a given 
>> website, or simply everything -- be it LocalStorage, Flash cookies and 
>> whatnot.
> 
> My script delete simply everything. Advancing welcomed. 
> 
> Much more interesting seems to be the file:
> ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari/History/.tracked\ filenames.plist
> No satisfactory description found and seems to resists "History clean" as
> well... Unable to simulate the conditions to get the file again. Did anyone?

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