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Re:Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux ke... by codedokode on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @06:05PM (#44967024)
If your headers are new every time then it is very difficult to figure out who is who.
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Re:Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux ke... by kelseydh on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @07:45PM (#44967653)
It is very easy unless the IP address is also switching up.
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Re:Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux ke... by spoaceman7777 on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @06:43PM (#44967287)
yes, but it puts you in the incredibly small bucket of "users that has weird headers that don't mesh well", and makes using the rest of the (many) other fingerprinting techniques all the more accurate.
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Re:Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux ke... by JoshTriplett on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @10:37PM (#44968532)
> If your headers are new every time then it is very difficult to figure out who is who.

https://xkcd.com/1105/

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Re:Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux ke... by heavyset_go on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @11:18PM (#44968726)
It's very easy to train a model to identify anomalies like that.
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Re:Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux ke... by johnecheck on Thursday August 21, 2025 @06:54PM (#44979131)
While it's definitely possible to train a model for that, 'very easy' is nonsense.

Unless you've got some superintelligence hidden somewhere, you'd choose a neural net. To train, you need a large supply of LABELED data. Seems like a challenge to build that dataset; after all, we have no scalable method for classifying as of yet.

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