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To: LibWhacker

Buy a used computer trade-in from a repair shop. It usually has the original buyer`s administrator`s login defaults locked in and defaults to the original buyer`s email address and windows license info. All the upgrades are registered with the administrator.


19 posted on 06/04/2011 7:05:14 PM PDT by bunkerhill7
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To: bunkerhill7
Buy a used computer trade-in from a repair shop. It usually has the original buyer`s administrator`s login defaults locked in and defaults to the original buyer`s email address and windows license info. All the upgrades are registered with the administrator.

Wouldn't help.

The purpose of the fingerprinting is not to identify you, as in name and address and SSN, but to track you as you go from site to site, where each site is using a common ad server, such as doubleclick. If the ad server knows your recent browsing history, it can hit you with ads customized to your apparent interests. They don't know who you are (although some cross checking might reveal your identity in some cases), but they want to know if you are the same you that they've seen before.

They used to use cookies to track to track users from site to site. But cookies can be readily deleted. Fingerprinting is thus probably a more robust method.

58 posted on 06/05/2011 11:42:43 AM PDT by cynwoody
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