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Paul Bennett wrote: > My friend Sai is trying to find interesting ways to exploit a weakness in > CSS. It'll make more sense if you read the page, but basically he's > training an AI to recognize returning users regardless of which computer / > browser / OS they log in from. It doesn't do anything unless or until you > hit the button. > > Please follow Sai's wishes, and share the link by word of mouth, but not > via Fark, Slashdot, or any of the other "big name" sites. > > ------- Forwarded message ------- > From: "Sai Emrys" <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:37:22 -0500 > > I'm doing a little research project on website user fingerprinting, to > see if it's possible to identify a returning user despite changes in > their browser & history. > > It's a one page site and should be self explanatory: > > http://cssfingerprint.com > > > It does nothing other than what it says, and only after you click the > button. It should be compatible with all major browsers that support > javascript. > > I'd appreciate it if you hit the site every few days with every > browser/computer you use, using the same code each time; it'll help me > figure out how history data changes over time and across > browsers/computers. (Don't do it from public computers, as that'll > make my training data worse.) > > Hopefully the results should be interesting/amusing enough to provide > a small reward for the minute of your time it takes to run. > > Please feel free to share/forward; the more traffic I can get the > better my data will be. > > This is totally OT of course, so if you have any > questions/comments/suggestions, please email me offlist. > > Thanks, > - Sai > > PS I'm pretty sure I've worked out most of the bugs, but if you get 0 > hits or <1k sites scraped, please let me know. > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
