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How your Web browser rats you out online (arstechnica.com)
19 points by lukeqsee on May 17, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



Although interesting, it's hardly a good tracking method if it can be foiled by simply installing a new font.


From the article:

"And the EFF found that making tweaks to one's browser in the hope of altering a fingerprint was largely futile—algorithms could correctly decipher most fingerprint changes over time."


http://www.crimemuseum.org/blog/?p=839

It turns out that altering your fingertips to become untraceable simply reduces the sample space to "mutilated fingerprints". The same logic holds here.

http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/abstractdb/AbstractDBDetails.aspx?i...


How often do people install a new font? Once a year?

(Graphic designers are the exception.)


My parents never ever.




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