DEFCON 18: How Unique Is Your Browser 3/3

Speaker: Peter Eckersley 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... For presentations, whitepapers or audio version of the Defcon 18 presentations visit: http://defcon.org/html/links/dc-archives/dc-18-archive.html