Adobe Flash, Apple Safari fail privacy test
Third party plug-ins like Adobe Flash do a poor job of cleaning traces of your browser sessions, rendering private-browsing features somewhat useless, according to a new study by researcher Katherine McKinley.McKinley, a researcher at iSec Partners, created a tool for testing the functionality of clearing private data after a browser session and browsing in private mode and found that some browsers -- most notably Apple's Safari for Windows -- do a poor job of wiping traces of a browser session.