See if your browser fingerprint can uniquely identify you

[vacuum]

My browser signature tested as unique....

But when I turn javascript off, I go from 1 in 2.4 million to 1 in 30,000 uniqueness.



https://panopticlick.eff.org/

Is your browser configuration rare or unique? If so, web sites may be able to track you, even if you limit or disable cookies. Panopticlick tests your browser to see how unique it is based on the information (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/primer-information-theory-and-privacy) it will share with sites it visits. Click below and you will be given a uniqueness score, letting you see how easily identifiable you might be as you surf the web.

[Horn]

Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 2,875,060 tested so far.


Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 21.46 bits of identifying information.



I use a communist connection so you'll never find me.:p

[madfranks]

Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 2,875,627 tested so far.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 21.46 bits of identifying information.

[gunDriller]

if you want to be anonymous -

* anon. Internet access, e.g. Internet cafe where you are not sitting in view of a surveillance camera and/or at least it can not see your screen

* untrackable computer, e.g. a laptop made by a company that went out of business (e.g., eMachines), purchased from a distributor that went out of business (e.g. Circuit City), so that you can not be tracked via your Mac ID.

for example, the HP laptop that i bought last summer, i am sure that if need be the Mac ID could be tracked. the US gov. would just need to sub-poena HP.

* in case the US gov is tracking people by web-surfing patterns - which is what i would do if i were them - do not visit websites you normally visit, in a 'normal order', if you want to be anonymous.

* start with fresh installs of the OS & browser if being anonymous is critically important.

etc.

if you need to be anonymous, since almost everything you do leaves a set of whole or partial digital fingerprints, it helps to also "investigate yourself" to see what fingerprints you are leaving behind.

[Santa]

Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 2,875,627 tested so far.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 21.46 bits of identifying information.
Here's mine.
Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 2,875,728 tested so far.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 21.46 bits of identifying information.
Doesn't it seem kind of odd(suspicious) that our browser fingerprint figures are identical?

[gunDriller]

OK i tried it

"Within our dataset of several million visitors, only one in 1,437,896 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 20.46 bits of identifying information."


how can you have .46 bits ? what does it mean, 2^20.46 ? = 1442360

oh well, this is on my home computer, they already know who i am anyway.

[sirgonzo420]

https://tails.boum.org/

T.A.I.L.S. for the win!



Tails is a live DVD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/live%5FCD) or live USB (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/live%5FUSB) that aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity.
It helps you to:


use the Internet anonymously almost anywhere you go and on any computer:
all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the Tor network (https://www.torproject.org/);
leave no trace on the computer you're using unless you ask it explicitly;
use state-of-the-art cryptographic tools to encrypt your files, email and instant messaging.

[vacuum]

Here's mine.
Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 2,875,728 tested so far.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 21.46 bits of identifying information.
Doesn't it seem kind of odd(suspicious) that our browser fingerprint figures are identical?

The reason they are identical is because only 2.8 million people have visited the website I linked to.

If everyone on the internet visited that website, then there would be more of a chance someone else has your exact configuration and the numbers might show differences. But as it is now, everyone who is unique will show what you got.

[PatColo]

if you enema your box with free CCleaner (http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download), then open your browser and go straight to that site in the OP, does it show any greater anonymity?

Guess I could try it, just not this second, got too much open ATM. I run CCleaner between browser sessions, usu a couple times a week.

[Ponce]

Mine does not work.........it doen't understan Spanish, stupid laptop.

First useless post of the day.........good morning to one and all.

V

[vacuum]

if you enema your box with free CCleaner (http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download), then open your browser and go straight to that site in the OP, does it show any greater anonymity?

Guess I could try it, just not this second, got too much open ATM. I run CCleaner between browser sessions, usu a couple times a week.

In theory, it shouldn't affect this test. It's based on what extensions, fonts, timezone, browser version, and other configuration-type things.

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

I'm not going to build their database for them. Link not clicked :)

[Neuro]

I'm not going to build their database for them. Link not clicked :)
Yeah I was just thinking of what they can use that info for... They link your unique browser signature with your IP-number, and they know who you are when you are going through an anonymous proxy...

[Santa]

Oh great! Now my computer is probably infected with some exe.cia/stuxnet/kiddieporn virus or something. :p

[Horn]

I'm not going to build their database for them. Link not clicked :)

In this policy, "EFF" and "we" refer to EFF staff, board members, cooperating attorneys, interns, volunteers, and consultants, all of whom are bound by law or contract to keep information they receive as part of their assistance to EFF confidential.

Its says they're bound by law, so all is well.

[vacuum]

I've got news for you guys....potentially any website can get this information from your browser.

Places like doubleclick, youtube, search engines, etc. likely have much much more extensive databases than this simple example website.

[osoab]

Oh great! Now my computer is probably infected with some exe.cia/stuxnet/kiddieporn virus or something. :p

Big Sis has got her worm in you... :o