From: Robert K. <r....@cr...> - 2005-07-29 15:09:07
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On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 05:55 -0400, David LaPorte wrote: > We've noticed that there's often a "1" tagged on the front. I'll add > some code to automagically do that so we don't have lots of > mostly-duplicate fingerprints in there. Whilst it clearly occurs with most of the windows signatures does it actually occur with any non-windows ones? It seems to me that automatically adding or removing things might lose information that can be used to help distinguish between devices. What do you lose by having a lot of duplicate signatures? > As to the others, I'm not sure... Are they all similar? Yes, 15,3,6,44,46,47,31,33,43,252 is essentially the default windows 2000 professional fingerprint with the 1 removed and a 252 added. Given that 252 is wpad option it may simple be related to the version of IE installed? I'm pretty sure this fingerprint is windows 2000 as we currently ask all our students what OS they're using when they register, and at least 10 MACs have popped up with this fingerpint and windows 2000 as their registered OS. -- Robert Kerr |