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Re: privacy, hah!, was: Does the laptop NIC MAC address ever get past your home broadband router?

From danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
Newsgroups alt.internet.wireless, alt.os.linux
Subject Re: privacy, hah!, was: Does the laptop NIC MAC address ever get past your home broadband router?
Date 2015-06-05 02:32 +0000
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Message-ID <mkr1og$71o$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <wwvmw0ro7xq.fsf@l1AntVDjLrnP7Td3DQJ8ynzIq3lJMueXf87AxnpFoA.invalid> <286a6$556fe0bd$4ad0de13$11449@nntpswitch.blueworldhosting.com> <mkq9ff$2efq$1@saria.nerim.net> <mkqif9$7oh$1@reader1.panix.com> <fb12natq6jmminfl8a1880ddilthgn74uu@4ax.com>

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In <fb12natq6jmminfl8a1880ddilthgn74uu@4ax.com> J0HNS0N <12J0HNSON122@2300nomail.com> writes:

>>https://panopticlick.eff.org/
>>
>>yes, that's the GOod Folk at the Electronic Freedom Foundation

>Every time I try it using the same Firefox browser several of the
>numbers change. First I was "only one in 2,721,631 browsers have the
>same fingerprint as yours", on the next try I was "unique among the
>5,443,259 tested so far". Either I've got a good sneaky browser or the
>website is a scam. I'm betting on the second.

Firefox:

Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 5,443,287 
tested so far.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that 
conveys at least 22.38 bits of identifying information.

Safari on same machine, a minute later:

Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among 
the 5,443,288 tested so far.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint 
that conveys at least 22.38 bits of identifying information.
   ----
- lots and lots of info, with numerous differences
  between the two browsers.


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Re: Does the laptop NIC MAC address ever get past your home  broadband router? Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-06-04 21:38 +0200
  Re: privacy, hah!, was: Does the laptop NIC MAC address ever get past your home broadband router? "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2015-06-04 18:34 -0400
    Re: privacy, hah!, was: Does the laptop NIC MAC address ever get past your home broadband router? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2015-06-04 23:05 +0000
  Re: privacy, hah!, was: Does the laptop NIC MAC address ever get past your home broadband router? J0HNS0N <12J0HNSON122@2300nomail.com> - 2015-06-04 19:21 -0700
    Re: privacy, hah!, was: Does the laptop NIC MAC address ever get past your home broadband router? danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> - 2015-06-05 02:32 +0000

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