02.07
Digital freedom fighters, EFF, are running a neat study on browser “uniqueness” to see how many different combinations of browser identification bits are out there and how easy it might be to fingerprint and track them. The theory goes that bad guys can use this information to track innocent people without their knowledge.
From the EFF’s brower tracking message,
“When you visit a website, you are allowing that site to access a lot of information about your computer. Combined, this information can create a kind of fingerprint — a signature that could be used to identify you and your computer. But how effective would this kind of online tracking be?
EFF is running an experiment to find out. Visit http://panopticlick.eff.org to learn how unique your browser is and if you can be tracked.”
It takes literally 30 seconds or less to visit EFF’s survey site, “personally identifiable information” is not logged, and it’s one more step toward digital freedom so go ahead and participate!
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