How Unique Is Your Browser?
Peter Eckersley - How Unique Is Your Browser.
Summary
Architecture and Background
Peter Eckersley - How Unique Is Your Browser?
Vulnerability Analysis
This talk reports the results of the panopticlick browser fingerprinting experiment.
Exploitation and Demonstrations
We show how inoccent-looking version and configuration information can be used to uniquely identify almost all desktop browsers, without use of cookies or IP addresses.
Remediation and Defensive Strategies
We discuss how this comes about, how serious a problem it is, and just how hard it will be to fix... Peter Eckersley is a Senior Staff Technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. His research interests include digital copyright and alternatives to digital copyright, network neutrality and network testing, censorship circumvention and privacy enhancing technologies. For copies of the slides and additional materials please see the DEF CON 18 Archive here:
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