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bill <new@man.com> wrote:
>
> Anonymous Internet access is now a thing of the past
>
>
>
> http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/securi...39183346,00.htm
>
>
>
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>     Anonymous Internet access is now a thing of the past. A doctoral stude
nt at
> the University
>     of California has conclusively fingerprinted computer hardware remotel
y,
> allowing it to be
>     tracked wherever it is on the Internet.
>
>     In a paper on his research,
>     primary author and Ph.D. student
>     Tadayoshi Kohno said: "There
>     are now a number of powerful
>     techniques for remote operating
>     system fingerprinting, that is,
>     remotely determining the
>     operating systems of devices on
>     the Internet. We push this idea
>     further and introduce the notion
>     of remote physical device
>     fingerprinting ... without the
>     fingerprinted device's known
>     cooperation."
>
>     The potential applications for
>     Kohno's technique are
>     impressive. For example, "tracking, with some probability, a physical
> device as it connects
>     to the Internet from different access points, counting the number of
> devices behind a NAT
>     even when the devices use constant or random IP identifications, remot
ely
> probing a block
>     of addresses to determine if the addresses correspond to virtual hosts
 (for
> example, as part
>     of a virtual honeynet), and unanonymising anonymised network traces."
>
>     NAT (network address translation) is a protocol commonly used to make 
it
> appear as if

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