-------- matt.addison@lists.evilgeni.us wrote: --------------------- On Jul 26, 2011, at 20:08, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
There's a subtle but significant difference between what cookies give you, which is "This is the same entity that visited our page at 7:48PM last Tuesday", and what easily trackable IP addresses give you, which is "This is an entity located at 1948 Durhof Street".
With how much identifying information user agents leak nowadays [1] this is almost a moot point. If you can be uniquely identified through the user agent- does it really matter that they can uniquely ID the household as well based on prefix information? 1: http://panopticlick.eff.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- All you need to do with what that site says is write a sh script that deletes and then creates the same user. Stick it in a crontab. Your browser ID changes each time. In addition to browser cookies, be sure to manage your flash cookies... http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings... So, force the DHCP server to give you new addresses (in IPv4; don't know about IPv6, yet), manage your cookies, change your browser IDs regularly. What did I miss? ;-) scott (who's still bristling from the last discussion about this where Valdis kept saying "Privacy is dead. Get used to it." I don't want to roll over and just take it... >;-) )