Tracking PCs anywhere on the Net
A University of California Ph.D. Student, Tadayoshi Kohno, will be presenting research in the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. Kohno has apparently managed to fingerprint remote devices, even if they are behind a NAT box, or behind an anonymizer service. Furthermore, Kohno’s techniques work regardless of distance: a target can be next door, or multiple hops and thousands of miles.
This is fascinating work. I’m going to add this to my stack of papers to read.
(Via Mitch Kapor’s Weblog.)