[LINK] BlueCava tracks individual devices, assigns creditworthiness

[Rick Welykochy]

Birch, Jim wrote:

> I've been thinking vaguely about a FF plugin that lies about your
> browser to websites, especially technically irrelevant stuff like
> plugins and fonts, that provide a high level of identification.  What
> would be cool would be a set of standard signatures in a data file that
> would be swapped at random but used by multiple computers.

You can change a few settings using "about:config" in the location box
of Mozilla browser products.


> I'm pretty confident that my browser signature is unique within in the
> stellar parallax distances give my plugin set and unusual fonts (eg,
> http://www.dafont.com/mad-science.font)

The EFF has a project aimed towards that end.

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

   "Is your browser configuration rare or unique? If so, web sites may be able
    to track you, even if you limit or disable cookies.
    Panopticlick tests your browser to see how unique it is based on the information
    it will share with sites it visits. Click below and you will be given a uniqueness
    score, letting you see how easily identifiable you might be as you surf the web.
    Only anonymous data will be collected by this site."

My own browser report: Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,280,081
tested so far.

cheers
rickw


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