I was thrilled to find out about the new "InPrivate" feature latly introducted in internet explorer 8. This feature is very usefull when you want to buy flowers to your wife or when you accidently roam into transexual midget snuff p0rn. People suppose that when using this feature no one can know where they surfed (nor the sites themselves or other users on the PC).
Actually, google already had this on Chrome with a feature called "incognito"...
however, something poped into my mind - every site can save (without asking anything) a nice file with extention ".SOL" on your machine. these files are located on -> C:\Documents and Settings\{user-name}\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\{some-hash-code}\{ site domain name}\{SOL file}
These ".SOL" files are used by macromedia flash movies for user traking and configuration storage. in this folder you can actually see all sites that has this feature (for example "youtube.com" or "dailymotion.com".
I though that the "InPrivate" thingy or "Incognito" takes care of this but I was surprised to see it doesn't. when browsing in "InPrivate" mode I went to both youtube and dailymotion and found that both sites happily written their SOL files on my machine. So, sites can track my actions even on so called private modes and my wife can find where I was buying her flowers...
so, next time you are "buying flowers to the wife" make sure to cover your tracks (Microsft and google only covers some of them).
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