2010
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14527-8_1
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How Unique Is Your Web Browser?

Abstract: Abstract. We investigate the degree to which modern web browsers are subject to "device fingerprinting" via the version and configuration information that they will transmit to websites upon request. We implemented one possible fingerprinting algorithm, and collected these fingerprints from a large sample of browsers that visited our test side, panopticlick.eff.org. We observe that the distribution of our fingerprint contains at least 18.1 bits of entropy, meaning that if we pick a browser at random, at best w… Show more

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“…A report on the sites with most Web bugs and its tracker coverage can be found in (KnowPrivacy, 2011). Javascripts, ActiveXs, Java applets, Flash objects and plugins can represent a privacy threat since they can be used to fingerprint the user's machine and thus, identify the user (this could be made even without cookies, although with its use could provide better results) (Martin and Schulman, 2002;Saint-Jean et al, 2007;Eckersley, 2010).…”
Section: Application Layermentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…A report on the sites with most Web bugs and its tracker coverage can be found in (KnowPrivacy, 2011). Javascripts, ActiveXs, Java applets, Flash objects and plugins can represent a privacy threat since they can be used to fingerprint the user's machine and thus, identify the user (this could be made even without cookies, although with its use could provide better results) (Martin and Schulman, 2002;Saint-Jean et al, 2007;Eckersley, 2010).…”
Section: Application Layermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Basically, the fingerprint is the identification of a set of browser features such as user agent, content-types of the HTTP Accept header, screen resolution, timezone, brower plugins, plugins versions and MIME types, systems fonts and some information provided by some tests for cookies (Eckersley, 2010). If this information is distintive enough, it allows the identification of a user.…”
Section: Application Layermentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…to create a "browser fingerprint." All of the information necessary to create this fingerprint is available upon request to websites visited from the browser [15]. He ran a fingerprinting algorithm on 470,161 informed participants visiting a particular EFF website.…”
Section: Combinations Of Information -The Devil Is In the (Very Minormentioning
confidence: 99%