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« on: May 20, 2010, 09:53:53 AM » |
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Melly
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« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2010, 09:59:58 AM » |
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Not really news. The whole Anonymous thing has always been an illusion. It's much easier to track you and find out information about you than most people think, and there are gigantic companies that have more info about you stored in their servers than you'd like to know about.
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« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2010, 10:02:26 AM » |
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yep but i can change the fingerprint by adding removing fonts... not counting changing other simple parameters, not like most of them are static.
Font is the thing that change most in my computer
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« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2010, 10:10:24 AM » |
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yep but i can change the fingerprint by adding removing fonts... not counting changing other simple parameters, not like most of them are static.
Font is the thing that change most in my computer
The report had a section on that: Unfortunately, we found that a simple algorithm was able to guess and follow
many of these fingerprint changes. If asked about all newly appearing fingerprints
in the dataset, the algorithm was able to correctly pick a "progenitor" fingerprint in 99.1% of cases, with a false positive rate of only 0.87%. The analysis of
changing fingerprints is presented in Section 5. |
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« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2010, 10:48:21 AM » |
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Websites that I visit can see the fonts that I have? Say it ain't so!
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If you wish to make a video game from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2010, 11:30:32 AM » |
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Isn't the obvious solution to offer a browser with very few configurable features? Then the browser will be difficult to track. Even if you only had ten-thousand adopters or so (a reasonable figure, I'd think) that's enough to help you hide if that matters to you.
Reminds me of the guy that posted his club card information online so that anyone could buy things under that account to get discounts and be untrackable.
-SirNiko
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« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2010, 02:37:34 PM » |
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Alternatively, you can just not do things on the internet that you wouldn't want to be tracked doing.
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Melly
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« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2010, 03:01:19 PM » |
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Unless you use proxies.
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« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2010, 03:03:32 PM » |
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It said my computer matched 1 in around 1000 when I had NoScript enabled. When I enabled JS, the button caused Firefox to crash. I guess it's good to know that my browser would rather die than give up certain information?
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« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2010, 03:06:33 PM » |
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Hahahahaha my fingerprint is unique. 1 in 1950000.  They got roughly 10 bits of information from me. Thank you Firefox/Ghostery/NoScript/Greasemonkey/Adblock/No cookies |
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« Reply #10 on: May 20, 2010, 03:11:02 PM » |
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Great, apparently I'm also unique. Yaaaaay. Wait I got nothing to hide.  |
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I'd write a devlog about my current game, but I'm too busy making it.
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« Reply #11 on: May 20, 2010, 03:35:40 PM » |
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Great, apparently I'm also unique. Yaaaaay. Wait I got nothing to hide. ...or so you think! Mauhahaha  |
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Chaos: It's the only system that works EVERY time.
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« Reply #12 on: May 20, 2010, 03:44:04 PM » |
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Oh no!  |
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I'd write a devlog about my current game, but I'm too busy making it.
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« Reply #13 on: May 20, 2010, 03:54:52 PM » |
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This sounds dubious.
Someone listed 1,950,000 unique people, but when I just used it now I got Unique in 1,011,415. How did the number of unique identities go down?
And I think I win with 19.55 bits of information. I got a lotta crap.
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« Reply #14 on: May 20, 2010, 03:55:53 PM » |
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Hahahahaha my fingerprint is unique. 1 in 1950000. They got roughly 10 bits of information from me. Thank you Firefox/Ghostery/NoScript/Greasemonkey/Adblock/No cookies Okay, but you realise that you want to be less unique to make yourself more difficult to identify, right? Alternatively, you can just not do things on the internet that you wouldn't want to be tracked doing.
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Hangedman
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« Reply #15 on: May 20, 2010, 04:06:07 PM » |
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Okay, now it is giving me different results every time. 1 in 200000, and suddenly less information. Also, the listed time zone is wrong  Edit: I think tons of NoScripters are using this now. Down to 150000 |
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« Reply #16 on: May 20, 2010, 04:44:04 PM » |
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Hahahahaha my fingerprint is unique. 1 in 1950000. They got roughly 10 bits of information from me. Thank you Firefox/Ghostery/NoScript/Greasemonkey/Adblock/No cookies Better be careful; with that paranoia of others seeing what you do on your computer you might end up on an FBI watchlist or two |
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« Reply #17 on: May 20, 2010, 04:44:33 PM » |
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And I think I win with 19.55 bits of information. I got a lotta crap.
Same as me! Although I was unique among 1,011,644 tested, apparently. |
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Melly
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« Reply #18 on: May 20, 2010, 05:04:16 PM » |
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Alternatively, you can just not do things on the internet that you wouldn't want to be tracked doing.
Just wanted to add that I agree with Corpus. This is something extremely unrealistic to expect of people. many peple have secret lives or hobbies that don't really harm anyone but could cause them great trouble if these were found out. Or are you saying that a gay man cannot talk with other gays through the internet because he lives somewhere deep in redneck country? |
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« Reply #19 on: May 20, 2010, 05:34:25 PM » |
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I thought people had been doing this for a while. Hay gaiz lets maek a browzer that deevolgez zeevo info about alls us so we canz stai anonymouse. Just let people have this information. Yes, they use it to personally identify you. You can press charges to the whole company or entity if they use this information against you,(IE blackmail) but in no way is that likely to happen. Just saying. |
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