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Message-ID: <20040120015745.H17455@dekadens.coredump.cx>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 02:04:52 +0100 (CET)
From: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@...ttot.org>
To: Dave McKinney <dm@...urityfocus.com>
Cc: vuln-dev@...urityfocus.com, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com,
   full-disclosure@...sys.com
Subject: Re: a method for bypassing cookie restrictions in web browsers


On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Dave McKinney wrote:

> This does appear to be a known way of tracking web users without using
> cookies: http://sourcefrog.net/projects/meantime/

Yup, my apologies for this sort-of-false alert. The only excuse I can
offer is that I failed to find any related information during a routine
run of Google queries, and that the flaw is still very much alive
nowadays.

The problem is ineed known, both the use of ETags and Last-Modified
headers to store data, and the indirect variant I described later on. The
issue had been initially reported by Martin Pool here:

  http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/bugtraq/2000/03/msg00365.html

Cheers,
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