begin quoting George Georgalis as of Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:33:36PM -0500: [snip] > the subject "hardware fingerprinting" is no less contiguous then the > thread. ...if you don't reset your ttl then they will really know it was > you, the men in the black helicopters don't even have to unerase your > disks to tell what you've been up to.
Ah, I see. Since all data comes from the network and none of it of any worth is created locally, they have an archive of all the bytes you've downloaded anyway, and so they know what your system may look like. Sneaky. I may have d/l'd a copyrighted song, and then deleted it immediately, but that's no help. I've already done the deed, therefore I can be guilting of a terabyte of copyright infrignement even if I only have 9 gigabytes of storage, total. With regards to the fingerprinting... it seems like a trivial thing to fuzz the clock skew randomly, and so render the whole scheme useless. -Stewart "Need a cron syntax for 'random', I see." Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
