Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jack Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: your privacy Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:31:58 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 40 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: Ke8UCN5oorh7H0A48Bcxtw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110704 Icedove/3.0.11 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:7307 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Shared_Object As with HTTP cookies, Local Shared Objects can be used by web sites to collect information on how people navigate those web sites even if people believe they have restricted the data collection.[14] Online banks, merchants or advertisers may use Local Shared Objects for tracking purposes.[15] and you can see who was watching you and since when at: File locations The default storage location for Local Shared Objects is operating system-dependent. On Microsoft Windows NT 5.x, they are stored in:[13] * %APPDATA%\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\ * %APPDATA%\Macromedia\Flash Player\macromedia.com\support\flashplayer\sys\ On Microsoft Windows NT 6.x, they are stored in:[13] * %APPDATA%\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\ * %APPDATA%\Macromedia\Flash Player\macromedia.com\support\flashplayer\sys\ On Mac OS X, they are stored in: * ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/#SharedObjects/ * ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys/ On Linux or Unix, they are stored in: * ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects/ * ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys/