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To: LibWhacker

Mine to seems to be completely unique among the 1.56 million in their database.

So what are the odds that we BOTH have such unique settings?

One thing making mine unique was that I have Java plugins- but who does not?

I think these guys are BUILDING a database of browser characteristics, to use to track people.


7 posted on 06/04/2011 6:42:05 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: DBrow
I think these guys are BUILDING a database of browser characteristics, to use to track people

That was my first thought.

26 posted on 06/04/2011 7:23:10 PM PDT by bgill (Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: DBrow

“Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,594,804 tested so far.”

I think you’re right.

Somebody just set us up the bomb.


30 posted on 06/04/2011 7:34:27 PM PDT by Salamander (I wear my sunglasses at night.)
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To: DBrow

“So what are the odds that we BOTH have such unique settings?”

Quite large. I identified 23 relevant elements on ‘User Agent’ and ‘HTTP_ACCEPT Headers’ alone. If each of them were binary (has only two choices) there would be 2^23 different possible configurations, or 8,388,608, which is much more than the 1.56 million in the database. They’re not binary, there’s a lot more configurations than that. And that’s without taking the other five parameters. Collision chances don’t seem too high.


31 posted on 06/04/2011 7:37:14 PM PDT by Moose Burger
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To: DBrow

Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,611,607 tested so far.


69 posted on 06/07/2011 2:55:30 AM PDT by publana (Beware the olive branch extended by a Dem for it disguises a clenched fist.)
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