After reading about the topic of my previous post (your browser history not being secure), I decided to take a look at the various security plugins that you can get for Firefox (my browser of choice). I came across the plugin BetterPrivacy that referenced Local Shared Objects (or LSO).
LSO are basically Flash cookies (some people call them super-cookies), and from what I have read any Flash app that gets loaded (including those annoying adds you get everywhere, or perhaps a hidden app that you don’t even see) can store a set amount of data on your hard drive (the default is 100k). Read the rest of this entry »