Fingerprinting a comp behind the browser

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morganism
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Fingerprinting a comp behind the browser

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Cross- Browser machine fingerprinting catches some of the info behind the browser to tag specific machines. Finding graphic card features, cpu and cores, and installed writing scripts


http://yinzhicao.org/

(Cross-)Browser Fingerprinting via OS and Hardware Level Features

Tor blocks most of that info by default, paper says
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20130410 Firefox/23.0
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