{"id":4436,"date":"2010-06-07T23:06:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T03:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=4436"},"modified":"2010-06-01T23:40:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T03:40:25","slug":"identifiable-browsers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2010\/06\/07\/identifiable-browsers\/","title":{"rendered":"Identifiable Browsers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s like the Electronic Frontier Foundation is Captain Obvious? It says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/press\/archives\/2010\/05\/13\">web-sites fingerprint browsers to identify the users<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The website anonymously logged the configuration and version information from each participant&#8217;s operating system, browser, and browser plug-ins &#8212; information that websites routinely access each time you visit &#8212; and compared that information to a database of configurations collected from almost a million other visitors. EFF found that 84% of the configuration combinations were unique and identifiable, creating unique and identifiable browser &#8220;fingerprints.&#8221; Browsers with Adobe Flash or Java plug-ins installed were 94% unique and trackable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A login is supposed to belong to an individual. Web technologies wanting to honor transactions sent by web browsers which have sent a successful login typically do so by granting that browser a token. Don&#8217;t want to enable cookies? Fine. Go somewhere else. As long as you want to use my application, you&#8217;ll have a cookie I&#8217;ll associate with a username.<\/p>\n<p>All this other stuff is for fingerprinting browsers without using a login. Or maybe to identify who is using the same login? I&#8217;ve got different browsers for different logins on the same sites.<br \/>\n\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s like the Electronic Frontier Foundation is Captain Obvious? It says web-sites fingerprint browsers to identify the users. The website anonymously logged the configuration and version information from each participant&#8217;s operating system, browser, and browser plug-ins &#8212; information that websites routinely access each time you visit &#8212; and compared that information to a database of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-browsers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-19y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}