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The EFF Wonders if You Can Be Identified by Your Browser, Help Out
From EFF.org:
When you visit a website, you are allowing that site to access a lot of information about your computer’s configuration. Combined, this information can create a kind of fingerprint — a signature that could be used to identify you and your computer. But how effective would this kind of online tracking be?
EFF is running an experiment to find out. Our new website Panopticlick will anonymously log the configuration and version information from your operating system, your browser, and your plug-ins, and compare it to our database of five million other configurations. Then, it will give you a uniqueness score — letting you see how easily identifiable you might be as you surf the web.
Try it out. My browser registers as pretty unique right now, but there clearly needs to be a lot more participants to get an accurate picture. Takes less than 30 seconds and you get to see all sorts of information you probably didn’t know other people could see.
Quick Heads Up: Sailor Moon Sacrifice Is Back In Production
Also check out the trailers for Sailor Moon Analemma and The Last Soldier
Excited by the recent trend in Sailor Moon fan series. They’re all pretty visually and technically appealing, hope the stories are great as well.
[via: moonkitty.net / Alexisofroses]
Quick Heads Up: On the Outside It Looked Like an Old Fashioned Police Box
You’ve got seven days left to listen to Mark Gatiss talk about Target Doctor Who novelizations.
-> BBC Radio 4 Programmes – “On the Outside It Looked Like an Old Fashioned Police Box”
Quick Heads Up: Tomorrow (May 25th) Is Towel Day
Carry your towel with you in celebration of Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy!
-> Towel Day