Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Fingerprinting PC By Enabling ToDraw Images

Here's a new way to identify individual computers over the Internet. The page instructs the browser to draw an image. Because each computer draws the image slightly differently, this can be used to uniquely identify each computer. This is a big deal, because there's no way to block this right now.
Article. Hacker News thread.

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