How Unique Is Your Browser?

Presented at DEF CON 18 (2010), July 30, 2010, noon (50 minutes)

This talk reports the results of the panopticlick browser fingerprinting experiment. 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. We discuss how this comes about, how serious a problem it is, and just how hard it will be to fix...

Presenters:

• Peter Eckersley - Senior Staff Technologist, Electronic Frontier Foundation
  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.

Links:

• https://defcon.org/html/defcon-18/dc-18-speakers.html#Eckersley2
• https://infocon.org/cons/DEF CON/DEF CON 18/DEF CON 18 video and slides/DEF CON 18 - Peter Eckersley - How Unique Is Your Browser - Video and Slides.mp4 (Video and Slides)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gM9r8jNMFU

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