-------- matt.addi...@lists.evilgeni.us wrote: --------------------- On Jul 26, 2011, at 20:08, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > There's a subtle but significant difference between what cookies give you, > which is "This is the same entity that visited our page at 7:48PM last > Tuesday", and what easily trackable IP addresses give you, which is "This is > an > entity located at 1948 Durhof Street".
With how much identifying information user agents leak nowadays [1] this is almost a moot point. If you can be uniquely identified through the user agent- does it really matter that they can uniquely ID the household as well based on prefix information? 1: http://panopticlick.eff.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- All you need to do with what that site says is write a sh script that deletes and then creates the same user. Stick it in a crontab. Your browser ID changes each time. In addition to browser cookies, be sure to manage your flash cookies... http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html So, force the DHCP server to give you new addresses (in IPv4; don't know about IPv6, yet), manage your cookies, change your browser IDs regularly. What did I miss? ;-) scott (who's still bristling from the last discussion about this where Valdis kept saying "Privacy is dead. Get used to it." I don't want to roll over and just take it... >;-) )
