Browser fingerprinting is quite reliable when you reject cookies. Canvas, Font, GPU, CSS API's are all good sources of identifiable data. Of course if you turn off Javascript *and* Cookies, there isn't much left to fingerprint.
It is that simple. Physical seperation is the way to go and since you were willing to buy a machine with your own money, you now get two machines for the price of one. No legal mess, no conversation required, this is the simplist solution.
I learnt a couple of years ago in Telecommunications class about the benefit of more than one antenna for wireless communications. Maybe the big deal is that products are starting to come out to the market. The technology however, is nothing new.
Once the physicists give their product to the DVD Forum/Alliance, we can expect uncompatible competing formats to delay wide adoption of this technology for the next 7 years after it is launched.... so goes life.
This is just like interstitial ads which have been around for ages and pretty much force you to view the ad until you can continue to the next page where the content really is.
Hopefully popup killers will be able to nuke this new type though.
Well actually not really. They completed the whole keyspace and then realized that 25% needed to be redone. So the key was in it. Overall they could have finished it about 8-9 days ago if it wern't for this small mishap.
I don't think you really understand what is going on here. @home mail/news servers are already locked down (only shaw@home members can use shaw@home news/mail servers). The problem lies in all the users who have misconfigured proxy servers like wingate on their computer. These proxy servers essentially open up the SECURED news servers for the whole world to use. The only 2 options left would be to disconnect the user with the proxy all together (Very bad idea) or block that users news/mail usage until that user Secures THEIR own system. @home had made the right choice with what they are doing to fix this SPAM disaster, unless of course you have a better way for them to fix the problem.
I totally agree with you here. I think this type of technology can have some very valuable uses if used properly.
What you may ask can be valuable?
Well how about a parent implanting this chip in their young child. Everybody knows that it is a parents worst nightmare that something like abduction could happen to their child. This GPS chip could help authorities retrieve the child before any harm is done to them because they'll know exactly where to find them. And even on the very bad side of things, suppose the child was killed, at least the parents would be able to know this instead of never finding their child and wondering if he/she will ever show up again.
Of course there is the bad side of this technology but i'll leave that up to everybody else to argue about:)
This is ridiculous. I have been going to comdex since i was 15 years old. You just lie about your age on the registration form and nobody says anything about it. They dont even check the forms.
It is just plain stupid to set a age like 18 when there are some 16 or 17 year olds who belong there more then some of the 40 year olds.
How can you believe that this server runs on a ISDN? Us geeks use more bandwidth then that. Slashdot is hosted on 4-7 Mbps on a T-3 at UPNetworks and all it's images are served from WolfeNet
Took that from a article in this weeks Internet World. There is a nice article on/.
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Browser fingerprinting is quite reliable when you reject cookies. Canvas, Font, GPU, CSS API's are all good sources of identifiable data. Of course if you turn off Javascript *and* Cookies, there isn't much left to fingerprint.
is all I could think about when I saw Amazon's number
We are forced to use 128-bit encryption for online banking!
Maybe you need to get a better bank! I just logged into a top 5 Canadian bank and they are using AES-256 with a 1024-bit RSA cert.
It is that simple. Physical seperation is the way to go and since you were willing to buy a machine with your own money, you now get two machines for the price of one. No legal mess, no conversation required, this is the simplist solution.
I learnt a couple of years ago in Telecommunications class about the benefit of more than one antenna for wireless communications. Maybe the big deal is that products are starting to come out to the market. The technology however, is nothing new.
Once the physicists give their product to the DVD Forum/Alliance, we can expect uncompatible competing formats to delay wide adoption of this technology for the next 7 years after it is launched.... so goes life.
This is just like interstitial ads which have been around for ages and pretty much force you to view the ad until you can continue to the next page where the content really is.
Hopefully popup killers will be able to nuke this new type though.
Well actually not really. They completed the whole keyspace and then realized that 25% needed to be redone. So the key was in it. Overall they could have finished it about 8-9 days ago if it wern't for this small mishap.
I don't think you really understand what is going on here. @home mail/news servers are already locked down (only shaw@home members can use shaw@home news/mail servers). The problem lies in all the users who have misconfigured proxy servers like wingate on their computer. These proxy servers essentially open up the SECURED news servers for the whole world to use. The only 2 options left would be to disconnect the user with the proxy all together (Very bad idea) or block that users news/mail usage until that user Secures THEIR own system. @home had made the right choice with what they are doing to fix this SPAM disaster, unless of course you have a better way for them to fix the problem.
I totally agree with you here. I think this type of technology can have some very valuable uses if used properly.
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What you may ask can be valuable?
Well how about a parent implanting this chip in their young child. Everybody knows that it is a parents worst nightmare that something like abduction could happen to their child. This GPS chip could help authorities retrieve the child before any harm is done to them because they'll know exactly where to find them. And even on the very bad side of things, suppose the child was killed, at least the parents would be able to know this instead of never finding their child and wondering if he/she will ever show up again.
Of course there is the bad side of this technology but i'll leave that up to everybody else to argue about
This is ridiculous. I have been going to comdex since i was 15 years old. You just lie about your age on the registration form and nobody says anything about it. They dont even check the forms.
It is just plain stupid to set a age like 18 when there are some 16 or 17 year olds who belong there more then some of the 40 year olds.
I'm happy there are more people willing to develop new OS's so we end up with new alternatives to MS Bill's software.
You must have a slower CPU.
I got a PII-450 here and i get 25ms on my Cablemodem.
How can you believe that this server runs on a ISDN? Us geeks use more bandwidth then that. Slashdot is hosted on 4-7 Mbps on a T-3 at UPNetworks and all it's images are served from WolfeNet
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Took that from a article in this weeks Internet World. There is a nice article on