New Method of Tracking UIP Hits?

smurray writes "iMediaConnection has an interesting article on a new approach to web analysis. The author claims that he is describing 'new, cutting edge methodologies for identifying people, methodologies that -- at this point -- no web analytics product supports.' What's more interesting, the new technology doesn't seem to be privacy intrusive." Many companies seem unhappy with the accepted norms of tracking UIP results. Another approach to solving this problem was also previously covered on Slashdot.

Comments

I'm glad it isn't Rocket Science

[elronxenu]

He fails to consider the possibility of the same user using different browsers (and hence the same IP address, but different cookies, and a different browser identification string).

So you can use probabilistic means to identify unique visitors. That's not a paradigm shift, except for those whose paradigms are already very small.

Somehow I don't think this research is worthy of an NDA.

Re:CPUID

[KillShill]

Treacherous/Insidious Computing to the rescue.

no need for cpu id's when your entire system and its OS will generate a 128bit id for you. and give them out to "trusted" "partners".

remote attestation never sounded so good.