* Posts by Rodinuk

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Most browsers leave fingerprint that can ID users

Rodinuk
Black Helicopters

Interesting and disturbing

A whole new area for browser anonimising.

Testing against up to date versions of IE8 and Chrome 4 yielded the 'unique' result whilst Opera 10 returned a result implying that 1 other weirdo out there shares my my configuration. Firefox 3 was an improvement again provided NoScript was enabled, allowing scripts saw its anonymity slip to unique.

Enabling the private browsing mode in each browser had NO effect whatsoever, neither did denying access to the Java applet.

It will be interesting to see whether anyone will come up with a way to exploit this data but in the meantime I'll stick with my highly configured Firefox setup, it's just to gosh darned convenient for me to want to change.