browser fingerprinting - panopticlick

[coderman]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Mike Perry <mikeperry at fscked.org> wrote:
> ... I want to point out that Torbutton's obfuscation features
> are only intended to make you appear uniform amongst other Tor users.
> Tor users already stick out like a sore thumb because of using exit
> IPs, and the small numbers relative to the rest of your vistor base
> will make Torbutton's obfuscated settings appear very unique compared
> to regular visitors.

it would be nice if the tool could distinguish between persistent
uniqueness and ephemeral / transient settings like those employed by
Torbutton and other privacy proxies (which randomize some aspects of
the request and/or headers).

this is not a trivial task though...
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