http://panopticlick.eff.org/index.php?
Quite useful, actually.
What's that registering? Cookies / Acceptance of cookies / java or flash settings?
500k isn't exaclty a representative sample to compare against, when you think about all the computers on the internet currently. I'd give this a month then try again.
Still enough for counter trolling. Especially since the easily modifiable bits like the user agent don't seem to matter.
Interesting, but I'm not sure how accurate this is. I'm guessing their sample size is not very big.
Quote from: Slanket the Destroyer on February 03, 2010, 07:17:32 PM
Interesting, but I'm not sure how accurate this is. I'm guessing their sample size is not very big.
QuoteYour browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 555,280 tested so far.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 19.08 bits of identifying information.
No, not very large yet.
Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors, only one in 13,631 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.
What do i win?
I got one in 8000, but the FAQ (https://panopticlick.eff.org/faq.php) contains more about the whole experiment - they aren't using every bit of information the browser sends, for instance.
See also:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/primer-information-theory-and-privacy
Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 561,244 tested so far.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 19.1 bits of identifying information.
OHSHI-
"Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 569,090 tested so far.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 19.12 bits of identifying information."
Interesting, possibly helpful, but until the number of fingerprints grows...not very accurate.
check the comment under this post:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/01/tracking_your_b.html
i dunno what EFF thinks it's doing, but it's not accurate at all.
Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors, only one in 234 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 7.87 bits of identifying information.
Being unique doesn't matter. Being consistent does. Someday I'll get around to making a firefox addon to randomly swap through a list of different user agents & vary HTTP_ACCEPT headers & such with each visit to a given site. Sure, they will still be unique (probably more so) but instead of being one unique person you appear to be 20 or 100 or such.
That's the ticket. Be a moving target.
Here is a user agent switcher add-on for firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59
You can be a google spybot. I heard that from some webpages you get different content if you are pretending to be a google spybot.
Or you can type anything you want. But as was mentionned, the user agent does not make one's whole fingerprint.
:buttsecks:
Quote from: PeregrineBF on March 09, 2010, 05:55:25 AM
Being unique doesn't matter. Being consistent does. Someday I'll get around to making a firefox addon to randomly swap through a list of different user agents & vary HTTP_ACCEPT headers & such with each visit to a given site. Sure, they will still be unique (probably more so) but instead of being one unique person you appear to be 20 or 100 or such.
Ah then you'll be the one guy that visits with 20 different browsers from one IP ;-)
Anyway, about this thing, the concept is pretty sweet, but I'm pretty sure that the software/algorithm behind the particular implementation of the EFF is flawed, as it gives inconsistent results.
Just switching the user-agent isn't enough, and doing it manually is too annoying. It should be automatically changing, and faking the fonts installed/other info.