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Scheirer, in Readings in Multimedia Computing and Networking, 2002 2.3.7 Profiles Regardless, the functionality illustrated here should give you rich opportunity to learn and play as you master your browser configurations to enhance your security and protect your privacy.Įric D.
#ZENMAP PROFILES WINDOWS#
This is a far superior design to the Windows solution, where Internet Explorer just dumps cookies as actual files to the file system, which then must implement convoluted access controls and permissions to them and which also depends upon the System Registry (or as I call it, The Bloated Single Point of Failure solution) to function at all. Go figure.Īnyway, as an example of exactly what can go on in the background on the default cookie configuration of Firefox (or any other browser for that matter) I’ve added a process to the Advanced Configuration section of this chapter called “Low Level Firefox Profile and Configuration Editing” which will allow you to access the database where Firefox stores cookies and configuration information. Microsoft has named their cloud services “Azure,” even though azure is the color of a cloudless sky. In fact, in one case where I was contracted to design a security curriculum for Microsoft Azure (which I affectionately call “OhSure”) I created one specific profile for work on that project because of the wide requirements Microsoft had for cookies being enabled in order for their overall service offering to function correctly. I actually have a few different profiles. You can either change the default profile to suit your requirements or of course create others.
#ZENMAP PROFILES PROFESSIONAL#
You can certainly try it as I do, but you might want to at least give yourself the option of having a “standard” or “default” profile you can launch when you have enough work to do on sites that require cookies that you don’t want to go through the hassle of setting up in your professional profile nor should you. It is not feasible to only have the professional profile where you select sites you want to visit. Now that we’ve covered a “professional” or “limited” configuration for enabling cookies per site, let’s go back and talk about the default profile. Little Snitch will allow/deny access to the site in the first place. Firefox will prevent a site you visit from dropping a cookie via your browser. Understand there is a difference between what cookies you allow/deny in Firefox and the functionality provided in Little Snitch.
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Other places in my Exceptions list don’t create persistent cookies, as they don’t need to. That’s it – really! Each site can have any number of actual “cookie” files, but these are the only ones I’ve allowed to do so. After months of using this particular profile those are the only sites with cookies on my system for ThorProfessional.
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And actually, the sites I visit in ThorProfessional almost always work with cookies turned off it’s only when I want to logon somewhere or order something that I need to add the exception for any given site. You should be aware that maintaining an “allow only” process can be a bit tedious at first, but since I spend most of my time in ThorProfessional all day, it’s totally worth it for me.