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Changing something about the device so you can identify that device (or set of devices) later on is literally electronic fingerprinting.
by dymk 4y ago
Changing something about the device so you can identify that device (or set of devices) later on is literally electronic fingerprinting.
- hayalci 4y agoRepeatedly claiming something doesn't make it true. Here's what the Electronic Frontier Foundation says about fingerprinting. """Digital fingerprinting is the process where a remote site or service gathers little bits of information about a user's machine, and puts those pieces together to form a unique picture, or "fingerprint," of the user's device""" From: https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/what-fingerprinting https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/what-fingerprinting Here what TeamViewer is doing isn't fingerprinting. it's not combining unrealated bits of information to uniquely identify a user/computer. it's looking at literally one bit of information to identify whether the current non-uniquely-known user is in a -large- group or not, the group of "computers with teamviewer installed". it can be claimed that this is adding to the bits that can improve a third party's ability to uniquely identify a user/computer, but that's a different claim, that's not what teamviewer is doing.