Browser fingerprinting from Robin Berjon on 2010-05-21 (public-device-apis@w3.org from May 2010)

From: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 15:54:17 +0200
To: public-device-apis@w3.org
Message-Id: <DA6B8C24-1353-45FD-ABDC-3F4CE916ABB3@berjon.com>

Hi,

we've talked about fingerprinting before, notably within the scope of SysInfo. I completely forget if we looked at Panopticlick together before. Either way, they released their study today and it is quite interesting.

  https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/05/every-browser-unique-results-fom-panopticlick

Don't expect that disabling cookies will give you much in the way of privacy protection.

-- 
Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/

Received on Friday, 21 May 2010 13:54:49 UTC