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Tech Report: Cookies That Last Forever

Friday PM | 09/24/2010

KCBS Technology Analyst Larry Magid says the Evercookie, virtually impossible to remove, seems to be a stronger version of the zombie cookies that hide within Adobe Flash files.

KCBS Technology Analyst Larry Magid Reporting:

Evercookies find even more insidious places to hide than the standard cookies easily managed from a browser. And they have the ability to replicate.

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