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Date: Wed Feb 15 12:45:42 2006
From: guninski at guninski.com (Georgi Guninski)
Subject: Tracking with etags

iirc very similar problem was made public several years ago and there 
was online demo.

a solution may be to disable browser cache - stops at least the 
privacy problem between sessions.

-- 
where do you want bill gates to go today?

On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 08:23:35AM -0800, Adam Gleave wrote:
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> First, sorry if this has been mentioned before. I've searched and
> haven't found any mention, but it seems too obvious to have not
> already been reported.
> 
> Basically, client gets etag from server, client sends etag to server
> next time it connects, server can associate client.
> 
> Might not sound significant, but if Gmail - for instance - gives
> people Etag's, they - and anyone listening in on the connection - can
> associate unanonnimized accounts with anonymized accounts.
> 
> I tested this on tor + privoxy and it worked.
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