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Re: a method for bypassing cookie restrictions in web browsers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave McKinney)
Mon Jan 19 17:45:28 2004

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:09:39 -0700
From: Dave McKinney <dm@securityfocus.com>
To: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@ghettot.org>
Cc: vuln-dev@securityfocus.com, bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Message-ID: <20040119220939.GG13533@securityfocus.com>
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This does appear to be a known way of tracking web users without 
using cookies:
http://sourcefrog.net/projects/meantime/

> 
> Any thoughts? Is the technique something new?
> 

-- 
Dave McKinney
Symantec

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