[PLUG] [PLUG-TALK] How do web servers identify visitor devices?

[Michael Rasmussen]

Fingerprint computes avail themselfs to a variety of items that, taken 
together, come close to uniquely identifing your computer.

 From: 
https://clearcode.cc/blog/device-fingerprinting/#What-information-is-collected-to-create-a-device-fingerprint

They list:

  	* IP address
  	* HTTP request headers
  	* User agent string
  	* Installed plugins
  	* Client time zone
  	* Information about the client device: screen resolution, touch 
support, operating system and language
  	* Flash data provided by a Flash plugin
  	* List of installed fonts
  	* Silverlight data
  	* List of mime-types

For more information you can check out the description of it on 
Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint

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    Michael Rasmussen
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