Fingerprinting Computers By Making Them Draw Images

Current Berkman People and Projects 2014-07-21

Summary:

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....

Link:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/07/fingerprinting_.html

Updated:

07/21/2014, 17:25

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Tags:

academicpapers authentication biometrics fingerprints identification tracking

Authors:

Bruce Schneier

Date tagged:

07/21/2014, 18:50

Date published:

07/21/2014, 16:34