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

From J0HNS0N <12J0HNSON122@2300nomail.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 2015-06-04 19:21 -0700
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On Thu, 4 Jun 2015 22:11:53 +0000 (UTC), danny burstein
<dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

>Your browser itself sends out enough info to
>pretty much individually ID you. (I'd bet you
>thought the browser only told the web server
>what brand, so to speak, it was and your
>computer operating system. Hah!)
>
>Check out:
>
>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.

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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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