Tracking Clock Skew; Computer Forensics
Todd Walton <[email protected]>
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For those building freedom, there's a lot to overcome. According to this ZDNet story on Slashdot, somebody's developed a way of fingerprinting individual computers by their clock skew. It's an amazing piece of computer forensics, and it could do a lot of good. Of course, it's another hurdle for cypherpunks to overcome, but I don't think it's what the article cracks it up to be. It's merely a way of identifying individual physical machines, and an unreliable one at that. Either you skew your clock skew when necessary, or you connect from a public, shared computer. Using something like Freenet, it's not even an issue, of course. It's just another trap for the unwary. Tracking a Specific Machine Anywhere On The Net http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/04/1355253 -todd _______________________________________________ chat mailing list [email protected] Archived: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat Or mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe