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Thursday, October 6, 2011

Facebook - Cookies still track long after you quit


Hacker Nik Cubrilovic is  reporting on his blog that Facebook can
still track the websites you visit even after you have logged out of
the social networking site.

Cubrilovic conducted a series of tests, which showed that Facebook
only modifies the tracking cookies instead of deleting them once you
log out. It appears that your account information is still contained
within the cookies so that whenever you visit a website that features
a Facebook share button or widget, your browser sends information back
to Facebook.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-09/26/facebook-offline-tracking

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