Fingerprinting Mobile Devices |
CHAPTER 14 |
THE PROCESS OF IDENTIFYING A DEVICE on a network (or the user behind the device) is called fingerprinting. As the name suggests, the process involves identifying some set of characteristics that uniquely identifies one device or user.
This chapter looks at the fingerprinting of mobile devices both directly (that is, devices connecting to a network) and indirectly (that is, devices connecting to one or more Web sites). Given the nature of mobile devices, you’ll find that the methods used to fingerprint stationary PCs do not work so well on mobile devices. However, some characteristics of mobile devices lend themselves to new and somewhat daunting fingerprinting capabilities.
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