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Although interesting, it's hardly a good tracking method if it can be foiled by simply installing a new font.
by _flag 16y ago
Although interesting, it's hardly a good tracking method if it can be foiled by simply installing a new font.
- lukeqsee 16y agoHow often do people install a new font? Once a year? (Graphic designers are the exception.)
- ugh 16y agoMy parents never ever.
- techiferous 16y agoFrom the article: "And the EFF found that making tweaks to one's browser in the hope of altering a fingerprint was largely futile—algorithms could correctly decipher most fingerprint changes over time."
- pook 16y agohttp://www.crimemuseum.org/blog/?p=839 http://www.crimemuseum.org/blog/?p=839 It turns out that altering your fingertips to become untraceable simply reduces the sample space to "mutilated fingerprints". The same logic holds here. http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/abstractdb/AbstractDBDetails.aspx?id=174240 http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/abstractdb/AbstractDBDetails.aspx?i...