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Comment Re:Little Bobby Tables in User Agent String (Score 2, Interesting) 265

by Bill Evans on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @08:45PM (#30928042) Attached to: Tracking Browsers Without Cookies Or IP Addresses?

dave, your observation holds if the user changes the UserAgent just once.

But thms's idea (leaving aside the whole idea of destructive data) has great merit if you change the UserAgent string differently every day, or every hour. That anonymizes you periodically.

Researcher Says Social Networks Link Terrorists 212

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 08, 2009 @08:57AM from the you-have-a-terrorist-request dept.

An anonymous reader writes "At the International Conference on Cyber Security 2009 in New York, Evan Kohlmann, a senior investigator and private consultant for Global Terror Alert, claimed that a new breed of terrorists are using online forums to recruit people who align themselves with the mission of Al Qaeda, creating global networks of would-be terrorists."

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