Have you ever heard of Flash cookies? I hadn’t either until a couple of days ago when I listened to Leo Laporte’s internet stream of “Security Now! with Steve Gibson.”
It turns out that web developers have figured a way of using Flash, which resides on almost every computer, for storing cookies about which most users are completely unaware. I was! Furthermore there’s no way currently of editing those cookies from within the user’s computer environment. You can’t even access them. All is not lost, however. There is web access through the Adobe Flash site to these sneaky cookies. There you can establish permissons for future acceptance and delete current cookies. Do it today… you’ll be amazed by this hidden sneakery.
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager03.html

