Tracking PCs anywhere on the Net

A University of California researcher, Tadayoshi Kohno, says he has found a way to identify computer hardware remotely, a technique that could potentially unmask anonymous Web surfers by bypassing some common security techniques. In his paper Kohno mentioned possible forensics applications, saying that investigators could use his techniques “to argue whether a given laptop was connected to the Internet from a given access location.”

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