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Anonymously Track a PC Anywhere on Net - Remote physical device fingerprinting

Slashdot links to a ZDNet article exploring a new technique to identify (and track) PC’s on the internet by “exploiting small, microscopic deviations in device hardware: clock skews.” The technique is obviously of interest to the surveillance community, and could also be used by ISP’s to identify and count the number of devices behind a NAT router. Link to PHD student Yoshi Kohno’s findings.

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This entry was posted on Saturday, March 5th, 2005 at 2:09 am
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