[LINK] BlueCava tracks individual devices, assigns creditworthiness

[Steven Clark]

On 02/12/10 11:23, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> At 10:13 AM 2/12/2010, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>
>> My own browser report: Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique 
>> among the 1,280,081
>> tested so far.
> Yes, this is a case where being unique is not a good thing. It would 
> be useful to have the relative value returned, in my case
> 19.29 bits of identifying information.
> what that means. Is that a good score or a bad score? How can I change it?
> BTW, the figure of the plugin data changed from one check to another 
> and I didn't change anything in the browser.
*you* didn't ... which is part of the point :D

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