Adobe stance on local storage

Notice WIRED has coverage of a legal challenge to various websites which use Local Shared Objects in Adobe Flash Player to complement browser cookies in identifying return visitors… got picked up by Slashdot and Techmeme. I don’t know details of the individual websites or the particular concern, but I do know that Adobe has expressed [...]

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