News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Google Gravity experiment. Parent comment

Re:Google Gravity experiment by mistercow on Monday October 14, 2013 @03:43PM (#6549190)
I wonder how many bits of entropy that fingerprint has, though. 8 bits would make for an impressive and scary looking demo, for example, but for ad tracking it would be useless.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google Gravity experiment by maaku on Monday October 14, 2013 @04:51PM (#6549560)
I don't think ad tracking is the scary application...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google Gravity experiment by mistercow on Monday October 14, 2013 @11:34PM (#6551352)
That's a good point, and p = 1/256 is definitely good enough to convince a judge or jury.
[ Parent | on HN ]