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      ScienceDaily [sciencedaily.com] reports on research from University of Adelaide:

Almost like a regular fingerprint, a person's browser fingerprint -- or "browserprint" -- is often unique to the individual. Such a fingerprint can be monitored, tracked and identified by companies and hackers.

      Researchers at the University of Adelaide are working to find new methods of protecting against the fingerprinting of personal computers -- and are now giving members of the community the chance to see firsthand their own computer browserprint.

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      "Eventually we hope that people will be able to protect themselves from being fingerprinted, or tracked without their consent. But in order to do this, we need to analyze a large number of online fingerprints -- as many as 10,000 of them would be helpful. Currently we have 2500, which is a great start," he says.

      "No personal information will be retained for our project. We're simply looking for the data, which will be rendered anonymous for ethical reasons."

      For more information or to see your own browserprint, visit: https://browserprint.info [browserprint.info]

      This research is supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers.

      Your humble correspondent asked to be fingerprinted.

Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 3,225 tested so far.

      Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 11.66 bits of identifying information.

      The measurements we used to obtain this result are listed below.

      Sometimes it's nice to be unique, but this isn't one of those times...

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