A University of California researcher claims (in his doctoral thesis) that PCs connected to the web can be identified individually over the Internet, theoretically ending the anonymity of PC users. The technique reads "microscopic deviations" in PC clocks, identifiable in the times stamped onto outgoing packets, which are as identifiable as fingerprints, apparently.
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