Apparently webbrowsers tend to have a unique fingerprint through various information it sends off...
Article - in German: http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2010-01/browser-fingerabdruck-eff?page=all
Add-ons, Fonts, Screen etc.
I'm not really sure that's quite so accurate - my Vanilla IE8 apparently is unique...
What do you think?
The site that does the "testing" does so if you click a button and can be found here:
https://panopticlick.eff.org/
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Chrome
Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 242,234 tested so far.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 17.89 bits of identifying information.
I cant read German, so i have no idea what the page says lol. -
If you switch off plug-ins, javascript and java you'll become a lot less unique, but with a pretty dull page
Chrome keeps a lot of private information so I'd expect it to worse than any other browser. I don't have it installed anymore so I can't check.
I guess Firefox will do best at this because Opera is less common.
Stuff like this is becoming more of a threat these days. -
I hesitate to say this, but you have a fingerprint, too.
A computer's fingerprint's uniqueness is only useful as an identifier if it is connected to you the person. Also, while a single fingerprint can be a useful tool at a crime scene, it is useless if there are several million fingerprints in the room.
This is an interesting exercise, but it's scary potential is overrated. -
My IE8 and chrome are both unique. Anyone get a non unique result?
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Yeah, but the "fingerprint" will change as soon as you update your browser or enable/disable any plugins... or set your computer to a different time zone... or even connect it to a monitor with a different resolution.
Still... kind of interesting how much info they can get from your browser. -
cut off your browser's fingers
Webbrowsers - fingerprints?
Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by DetlevCM, Jan 29, 2010.