Web Browsers Leave ?Fingerprints? Behind as You Surf the Net

[Daniel]

San Francisco ? New research by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has found that an overwhelming majority of web browsers have unique signatures ? creating identifiable ?fingerprints? that could be used to track you as you surf the Internet.

The findings were the result of an experiment EFF conducted with volunteers who visited http://panopticlick.eff.org/. The website anonymously logged the configuration and version information from each participant?s operating system, browser, and browser plug-ins ? information that websites routinely access each time you visit ? and compared that information to a database of configurations collected from almost a million other visitors. EFF found that 84% of the configuration combinations were unique and identifiable, creating unique and identifiable browser ?fingerprints.? Browsers with Adobe Flash or Java plug-ins installed were 94% unique and trackable.

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Daniel Reviewed by Daniel on 1st Jun 2010. Web Browsers Leave ?Fingerprints? Behind as You Surf the Net http://www.inteldaily.com/2010/05/web-browsers-leave-fingerprints-behind-as-you-surf-the-net/ Rating: 5

[r4myy]

Browsers with Adobe Flash or Java plug-ins installed were 94% unique and trackable

damn megaporn

[Maniac_]

Good thing i surf from my neighbor's router then..

[Juicy]

Nothing new there. You should use it to profile YOURSELF on the internet. Look, it can be positive too!