New Research on Protocol Information (ISSUE-16, ISSUE-19)

I want to call the group's attention to a new paper that demonstrates how IP address and user-agent string may be sufficient to track a substantial proportion of web users.  The paper also finds that scrubbing the last octet from an IP address may do little to mitigate tracking.

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/156901/ndss2012.pdf

Jonathan