Tracking your Browser Without Cookies

January 29th, 2010 admin

How unique is your browser? Can you be tracked simply by its characteristics? The EFF is trying to find out. Their site Panopticlick will measure the characteristics of your browser setup and tell you how unique it is. I just ran the test on myself, and my browser is unique amongst the 120,000 browsers tested so far. It’s my browser…


Originally posted on Schneier

 
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