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Does HTTPS protect you from fingerprinting by the NSA?

Posted on January 8, 2015 by user21377

We’ve established that, for all intents and purposes, HTTPS hides what page you visit on a given server from NSA backbone wiretapping, but not the domain itself. But that’s only IP / domain correlation (across multiple domain… Continue reading Does HTTPS protect you from fingerprinting by the NSA?→

Posted in nsa, privacy, surveillance, TLS | Tagged fingerprinting

How to fake a browser fingerprint?

Posted on December 27, 2014 by Freedo

I’m developing a browser based on Google Chromium and keeping in mind that privacy is freedom; but I need to know how to protect my browser’s users against fingerprinting.

I was thinking about intercepting requests associated with finger… Continue reading How to fake a browser fingerprint?→

Posted in privacy | Tagged fingerprinting

bot detection via browser fingerprinting

Posted on October 29, 2014 by WeaselFox

I’ve recently noticed that a few companies have begun to offer bot and scraping protection services based on the idea of browser fingerprinting to detect them, and then blocking the specific fingerprint from accessing the site (rather than… Continue reading bot detection via browser fingerprinting→

Posted in detection, javascript | Tagged fingerprinting

How is YouTube able to identify anonymous users?

Posted on July 10, 2014 by Mister Smith

A few days ago I was searching YouTube and I noticed an “outlier” video poped up in the suggestions list. This video had nothing to do with the topic being searched, but instead it was based on a previous search that was requ… Continue reading How is YouTube able to identify anonymous users?→

Posted in cookies, privacy, web browser | Tagged fingerprinting

Spoofing OS during browsing

Posted on October 13, 2013 by blended

I am using http://www.mybrowserinfo.com/ to gather some info about me while browsing.
I want to change my OS to appear that its a Windows Xp machine.(No VM solutions please:D)

If you have any related material how this sites… Continue reading Spoofing OS during browsing→

Posted in Operating Systems, os-fingerprinting, reconnaissance | Tagged fingerprinting

Techniques for fingerprinting a web based content management system (CMS)

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Camil Staps

Let’s say we have a random basic blog or informational website: just some pages with information, a sidebar with an overview of the archives, the normal stuff. We know of this website that it’s built with a CMS. How can we ge… Continue reading Techniques for fingerprinting a web based content management system (CMS)→

Posted in CMS, enumeration | Tagged fingerprinting

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