Peter Eckersley - How Unique Is Your Browser?

This talk reports the results of the panopticlick browser fingerprinting experiment. We show how inoccent-looking version and configuration information can be used to uniquely identify almost all desktop browsers, without use of cookies or IP addresses. We discuss how this comes about, how serious a problem it is, and just how hard it will be to fix... Peter Eckersley is a Senior Staff Technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. His research interests include digital copyright and alternatives to digital copyright, network neutrality and network testing, censorship circumvention and privacy enhancing technologies.