service and user-agent disclosure - please consider privacy

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Wed Jan 11 14:56:08 UTC 2012


Am 11.01.2012 15:21, schrieb Emanuel Rietveld:
> On 01/11/2012 12:43 PM, Richard wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:53:52PM +0100, nodata wrote:
>>
>>> Fonts are a bigger threat to privacy, see here:
>>>   http://panopticlick.eff.org/
> 
> Maybe I am missing something, but isn't this only relevant if your IP is 
> not visible to the web server? Otherwise, you can trivially be tracked 
> by your IP address.

and since most people use mobile devices and/or have dynamic ip-addresses
or sometimes are in a big NAT-LAN in companies or in case of mobile
devices sharing the same gateway-ip with thousands of other random
customers maybe with some of them having also fedora -> you know
what i mean?



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