[nycbug-talk] hardware fingerprinting

George Georgalis george
Fri Mar 4 17:37:42 EST 2005


On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:55:20PM -0500, Okan Demirmen wrote:
>something we all may find interesting:
>
>http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39183346,00.htm
>
>http://www.caida.org/outreach/papers/2005/fingerprinting/

uhoh. now what am I going to do???

no mention of ttl resets at the nat gw, or other routers.
would that break it? the conclusion makes me think the
'bigger' application is as an adversary's penetration tool.

// George

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