Re: Slightly off topic but very relevant to sploit activity

[Chao Mu <chao.mu () minorcrash com>]

> Likely similar to https://panopticlick.eff.org/
>
> His "billion device database" is going to be worthless for most mobile
> devices (all ship with the same exact software image) and will become
> stale really fast. Each time Firefox pushes an update, Adobe patches
> another 0day, or someone reinstalls a system, the prior fingerprint is
> going to be invalidated.
The problem immediately brings my mind to perceptual hashes.

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:06 PM, HD Moore <hdm () metasploit com> wrote:
> On 12/11/2010 9:07 PM, Jeffs wrote:
> > Pardon if this is slightly off topic for this list but I do feel there
> > is some technical vision here, and interesting potential use in the
> > framework:
> >
> > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704679204575646704100959546.html
> >
> >
> > The link is for a new method of tracking computers, called digital
> > fingerprinting.  The author states there are literally hundreds of ways
> > to track individual computers aside from the usual mix of cookies, fonts
> > used, plugins and user agents.
> >
> > Interested to know if anyone has delved into this at length, and if
> > there might be use of it in the Framework.
>
> Likely similar to https://panopticlick.eff.org/
>
> His "billion device database" is going to be worthless for most mobile
> devices (all ship with the same exact software image) and will become
> stale really fast. Each time Firefox pushes an update, Adobe patches
> another 0day, or someone reinstalls a system, the prior fingerprint is
> going to be invalidated.
>
> -HD
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