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Why staying logged in to your FB/Twitter is dangerous

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Re: Why staying logged in to your FB/Twitter is dangerous

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From what I gathered in the article, logging out doesn't solve the problem. The cookie works if you've logged in anytime in the last month

Also, Facebook uses a Flash LSO. You have to clear that to really be logged out.

I don't have Flash :D

Re: Why staying logged in to your FB/Twitter is dangerous

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You could also use multiple profiles (at least in Firefox), one for browsing around and one for social network sites. In that case there will be guaranteed no cookie cross-pollution as the sites are completely isolated from each other. Just logging out is indeed simply ineffective.

If only... Facebook uses a Flash LSO, which is of course shared between browsers.

"of course shared between browsers"

Is it? Are saying that the flash crap doesn't distinguish between browsers/profiles?

That's another very bad security problem with flash. For me, it's the final straw. I'm going to wipe flash from all my machines now.

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