There is such a huge amount of crap there it's hard to know where to start.
The bloke from Scan implying his layer 2 MAC made its way past his local network edge? This guy thinks the whole world is one single Ethernet collision zone chattering away. Given the performance, I can see why he'd think that of Virgin Media's backbone
I guess.
Then the part about browser crumbs and
"These fingerprints look deep into the characteristics of the machine, logging such things as the time zone, keyboard language, operating-system version and other key identifiers"
So other than HTTP and browser vars they're building this fingerprint from what? That special ActiveX control that every browser (including the non-Windows, non-intel) secretly runs. How nice of Apple to agree to universal fraud prevention and build an ActiveX sandbox on iOS for them
. Or maybe he's talking about the .NET CLR runtimes that are installed and change with most Windows Update sessions, hehe. Or the font list?
I've used browser fingerprinting for a few purposes in the past, but if I'd wired that into any fraud system and given it significance I'd expect my invoices to be returned seconds before the writs are served on me.
