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Cookieless Monster: Exploring the Ecosystem of Web-Based Device Fingerprinting

Nick Nikiforakis, Alexandros Kapravelos, Wouter Joosen, Christopher Kruegel, Frank Piessens and Giovanni Vigna

A study of commercial web-based device fingerprinting: the scripts then sold by fingerprinting firms were analysed for what they collect beyond documented browser APIs and how widely sites deployed them. It also showed that user-agent spoofers and anti-fingerprinting extensions frequently make a browser more distinctive rather than less. IEEE S&P 2013.

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Nick Nikiforakis, Alexandros Kapravelos, Wouter Joosen, Christopher Kruegel, Frank Piessens and Giovanni Vigna

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• Added to the 2013 archive after the original list was published

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• Full research paper

Tags

• info-leak
• javascript
• flash
• measurement-study

This page is the archive's own catalogue record. The research is the work of Nick Nikiforakis, Alexandros Kapravelos, Wouter Joosen, Christopher Kruegel, Frank Piessens and Giovanni Vigna, first published at the original source. Preserved copies are kept so the citation survives its host.