On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 01:01:29 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

came to my attention, since web security is a bit of an issue I have to
deal with.

This site wont hurt, but it will tell you, possibly rather too exactly
(it certainly knew which exchange I was on ADSL wise, and I'd still like
to know how) where you are located.

http://www.ip-tracker.org/locator/ip-lookup.php

Nothing to worry about there, and it can be a useful tool when you have
arseholes trying to hack your website.


However *this* has the potential to be dangerous (both are safe links BTW!)

Forget tracking cookies

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

https://panopticlick.eff.org/browser-uniqueness.pdf


The system fonts 'leakage' I observed in Chrome (maybe its in other browsers too
but not in Firefox) is shocking.


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