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The Register Guide on how to stay anonymous (part 2)

scratchee

To quote wikipedia:

on 5 January 2011, Adobe Systems, Google Inc., and Mozilla Foundation finalized a new browser API (dubbed NPAPI ClearSiteData). This will allow browsers implementing the API to clear Local Shared Objects.[11] Four months later, Adobe announced that Flash Player 10.3 enables Mozilla Firefox 4 and "future releases of Apple Safari and Google Chrome" to delete Local Shared Objects

So things aren't as bad as they could be, clearing cookies in firefox at least deals with LSOs if flash is up to date. Not experimented with the others, but presumably they had time to do it.

And yeah,for me java is disabled except when needed. just good sense.

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Code for open-source Facebook littered with landmines

scratchee
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pre-alpha developer release

read my title. read it again.

It is a shame some people don't understand it and either use the developer release and get burnt or give up on it (yes you are as bad as they are), but this release was never about good code. it was never about code. it was never about creating a social network. It was about creating community of developers willing to work together and a community of users to get the ball rolling. The only way they could do that was by fulfilling the promises they made before, those promises were aimed at a few people, a few are forgiving, but they were heard by everyone, and everyone are not. Suddenly they *had* to release something or fail. They can throw away all their code and start again and it would still have been worth it.

As for security from the start (this bits just in general, not specific to this case): that is just crap that gets burned into our minds at uni cos it's the only way to make incompetent devs take security seriously. A well designed program can have security inserted afterwards in a few lines of code. Lets hope they designed it well. good security != good design, one can lead to the other (a well designed program can be made secure painlessly), but not the other way around (secure garbage is still garbage).

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