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  1. 6th February 2010, 12:26 PM #1
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    Fun with browser fingerprinting

    Dos_Box... this is the site I was telling you about on Friday...

    Scary: Panopticlick (My browser here at home is unique out of half a mil)
    Last edited by ZeroHour; 7th February 2010 at 09:48 PM.
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  3. 6th February 2010, 12:27 PM #2
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    ooo...

    Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 584,737 tested so far.
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    Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 585,527 tested so far.
    Damn needing six characters in the message
  5. 6th February 2010, 07:21 PM #4
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    Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 587,019 tested so far.
    I'm happy with that
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  7. 6th February 2010, 07:35 PM #6
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    Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 587,113!
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  8. 6th February 2010, 07:59 PM #7
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    Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 587,240 tested so far.

    what is uniqe about mine? i dont do anything special lol!
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    Its down to the unique combination of your OS + Browser + Addons + Fonts. So many combinations, so people are bound to be pretty unique.
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    Quote Originally Posted by EduTech View Post
    Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 587,240 tested so far.

    what is uniqe about mine? i dont do anything special lol!
    Precisely why this is a bit scary...
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    The below was done via the latest version of fire fox with java script and java enabled

    Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 590,459 tested so far.
    Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 19.17 bits of identifying information.

    So what does all this mean ???
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    Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 590,940 tested so far.

    Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 19.17 bits of identifying information.

    Very scary stuff :O
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