New Tricks for Browser Fingerprinting [pdf]
zyan.scripts.mit.edu
zyan.scripts.mit.edu
The presentation takes a while to get around to it, but it's a way to see your browser history using cert pinning/redirection. Specifically (ab)using features in the browser that even the paranoid don't disable. And then using that information to fingerprint you.
Demo: http://zyan.scripts.mit.edu/sniffly Code: https://github.com/diracdeltas/sniffly
It's a good find, even if it's not perfect the way the CSS link visited computed style checks was.
Maybe people have been so beaten down that they've given up. Track us all you want, nothing we can do about it!
The country's smartest and brightest are graduating from Stanford and MIT and going to work for companies whose entire business model depends on vacuuming up as much of the world's personal information as they can get away with. Depressing.
And you're only talking about the small percentage of the geeks. The non-geeks in our society have absolutely NO clue at all that such technology exists, how it works and how effectively it destroys privacy. Basically, they still live in dream land.
Technology moves faster than anything, not just the law.
Besides, all it takes is using a different web-browser to obtain a new "browser finger-print", using a virtual machine should work too.