| Re: Browser fingerprinting? [message #182797 is a reply to message #182790] |
Fri, 13 September 2013 23:30   |
bill
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On 2013-09-13 3:22 AM, Gilles wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 05:04:04 +0200, Fiver <numeralfive(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
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then I'm just one in a million.
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> But then, most trolls aren't technically-savvy, and wouldn't even
> think of installing a new browser after being banned.
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> And even then, after trying Chrome, Firefox, and IE, what else would
> most of them think of doing?
They don't need tech-savvy; all they need are the easily available
spam/scam et al applications of which there are many. There is very
little you can do about it at all. In the end you can end up making it
as hard on humans as it is for robots and other miscreants who want to
compromise you for whatever reason.
IMO solid, as unbreakable as you know how to make it, validation is
about all you can do. If there are no reasons to have tags in anything,
then strip the out and throw it away. Same for say hex, where there is
no reason to expect hex in a text. Stop the data and you stop the abuse.
But of course there is no 100% solution and I doubt there ever will be.
EVERY data input can be spoofed, so instead of over-watching for that,
be pro-active about ANY unexpected data!
If it were easy to do, it'd also be widely publicized and available.
HTH,
Twayne`
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