Friday, April 17, 2015

Fingerprinting as a technique to distinguish and track clients or create client IDs using Javascript

What is it about I'm currently on a task to create a client's fingerprint on a website to recognize if he's comming back or a first-timer on my page. The whole thing shall be done with clients side Javascript only. Some people are on this task for some time now: https://panopticlick.eff.org/ http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/EFF-demonstriert-den-Fingerabdruck-des-Browsers-918262.html (german) There...