The holy grail for tracking online is a unique ID that you can’t delete. It exists – it’s called a browser fingerprint and it’s being used in the wild.
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Security must come first! 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here’s this week’s 60 Second Security. News you can learn from, in just one minute…
SSCC 158 – What do you mean, “Don’t knit your own remote authentication?” [PODCAST]
Here’s this week’s Chet Chat security podcast for your listening pleasure. Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin of Sophos dissect the week’s security news to see what we can learn from other people’s mistakes…
Panopticlick reveals the cookie you can’t delete
You know about cookies, and how to delete them, but what if there was a cookie you couldn’t delete, and what if the steps you took to guard your privacy made you easier to track? The EFF’s Panopticlick tool determines how easy you are to identify based on your web browser’s ‘fingerprint’.