Local Flash Files Reveal Browsing History

While doing some housekeeping cleanup on my Windows laptop, I noticed an interesting set of files under the Adobe/Macromedia Flash section in “Application Data”. Inside a directory called `#SharedObjects` was a set of sub-directories named after domains I had visited. Each directory contained one or more `.sol` files which I discovered are Local Shared Objects, basically local data storage for Flash components.

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