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Tracking a Specific Machine Anywhere On The Net

Posted by Zonk on from the not-the-sandra-bullock-movie dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An article on ZDNet Australia tells of a new technique developed at CAIDA that involves using the individual machine's clock skew to fingerprint it anywhere on the net." Possible uses of the technique include "tracking, with some probability, a physical device as it connects to the Internet from different access points, counting the number of devices behind a NAT even when the devices use constant or random IP identifications, remotely probing a block of addresses to determine if the addresses correspond to virtual hosts (for example, as part of a virtual honeynet), and unanonymising anonymised network traces."

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  1. nothing to see here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    move along

    why did I get this message when I clicked on the story? and I had to remove the tid=123blabla to see the story?

  2. bwa-ha-ha! by ed.han · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    beware, AC first posters! :>

    ed

  3. no more... by Moonlapse · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    John Doe lawsuits if this comes into play, eh?

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