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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Individual Risk Management (Personal IT Security) and Browser Cache Management Post 303033252 by bakunin on Tuesday 2nd of April 2019 07:04:29 AM

04-02-2019

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Individual Risk Management (Personal IT Security) and Browser Cache Management

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Original post from this thread on browser caching.

To add to this, it is an effective security measure to clear absolutely all cached data (cookies, web content, ....) when closing the browser - i.e. in case of a shutdown. It takes a bit of work to re-login to all the sites but websites will not be able to identify you personally across sessions.

Also notice that some websites use information about your window size to identify you. This is why it is unwise to have maximized browser windows. Use fixed-size windows (like the for instance the TOR-browser does) instead which you should resize only in case you trust the website shown in this window.

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kcookiejar4

KCOOKIEJAR4(8)							 KDE User's Manual						    KCOOKIEJAR4(8)

NAME

       kcookiejar4 - KDE HTTP cookie daemon

SYNOPSIS

       kcookiejar4 [--help] [Generic-options] [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [--shutdown] [--remove domain] [--remove-all] [--reload-config]

DESCRIPTION

       kcookiejar4 handles the HTTP cookies providing a D-BUS service to store/retrieve/clean cookies.

GENERIC OPTIONS

       --author
	      Show author information.

       --help Show help about options.

       --help-all
	      Show all options.

       --help-kde
	      Show KDE specific options.

       --help-qt
	      Show Qt specific options.

       --license
	      Show license information.

       -v--version
	      Show version information

APPLICATION OPTIONS

       --shutdown
	      Shut down cookie jar and the D-BUS service.

       --remove domain
	      Removes cookies for domain from the cookie jar.

       --remove-all
	      Removes all the cookies from the cookie jar.

       --reaload-config
	      Reloads the configuration file.

USAGE

       KDE web browser konqueror uses kcookiejar4 for storing and managing cookies using the D-Bus service kcookiejar4 provides.

       When kcookiejar4 is started without parameters, it provides a D-BUS service to handle HTTP cookies.

       When  kcookiejar4  is started with some parameters, it does adittional tasks to the cookies jar it provides, like removing the cookies from
       one domain.

SEE ALSO

       kdeoptions(7), qtoptions(7)

BUGS

       There are probably tons of bugs. Use bugs.kde.org: http://bugs.kde.org to report them.

AUTHORS

       Waldo Bastian <bastian@kde.org>, Dawit Alemayehu <adawit@kde.org>.

								    2008-10-14							    KCOOKIEJAR4(8)