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Fingerprinting? This is just clickbait. Identifying that the murder weapon was a knife isn't remotely the same as getting the fingerprint of the killer.
by iLoveOncall 3y ago
Fingerprinting? This is just clickbait. Identifying that the murder weapon was a knife isn't remotely the same as getting the fingerprint of the killer.
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- rileymat2 3y agoThe term fingerprinting is in really common usage for this, “browser fingerprinting”
- nickburns 3y agoyou guys... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerprint_(computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerprint_(computing)
- riehwvfbk 3y agoContext matters. In this case "fingerprinting" refers to fingerprinting of the protocol by a DPI system, and the problem the author is concerned with is the ability to use a VPN at all.
- iLoveOncall 3y agoWords matter too. It's simply not fingerprinting.
- autoexec 3y agoIt really is fingerprinting. It’s just showing the fingerprint of the service and not the user. This is a very normal usage of the word for people interested in identifying specific types of traffic. Lots of things different things have detectable fingerprints that are useful within certain contexts.
- JamesSwift 3y agoFingerprinting doesnt mean "uniquely identified an individual", it just means "uniquely identifies some aspect of the target". You could fingerprint 'firefox' amongst all browsers, or in this case they are fingerprinting OpenVPN amongst all traffic.
- sfmike 3y agoit is. what if we know that only one person had said knife and then this "fingerprint" would be 100% empirical support. So yes sometimes just noting a VPN was used with said foreknowledge is enough to correlate and prove something.