{"id":1180,"date":"2010-01-30T21:38:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T16:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2010-01-30T21:38:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T16:08:15","slug":"are-you-unique-on-the-web-an-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/are-you-unique-on-the-web-an-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you Unique on the Web? &#8211; An Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/29\/are-you-unique-on-the-web\/\">last post<\/a> I spoke about the claim by EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) that your browser&#8217;s settings etc can be used as a fingerprint to identify you.<\/p>\n<p>However since then I have been reading up on it a bit more and it seems like the test they use might be flawed and incorrectly identifying people as unique. I will be following up on it and will post any updates here when I have more information on it.<\/p>\n<p>But personally I think the concept makes sense and is theoretically possible. Who know, it could be that the scenario is valid but there&#8217;s a bug in the EFF&#8217;s test code. Whatever the case may be, we will find out soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post I spoke about the claim by EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) that your browser&#8217;s settings etc can be used as a fingerprint to identify you. However since then I have been reading up on it a bit more and it seems like the test they use might be flawed and incorrectly identifying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}