Firefox did away with fingerprinting as well as a few other browsers. On 5/25/20 6:23 PM, der.hans via PLUG-discuss wrote: > Am 25. May, 2020 schwätzte Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss so: > > moin moin Alexander, > >> The only outbound ports open without concern are 123(UDP), 53(UDP), >> 80(TCP), and 443(TCP). All other ports are blocked, outbound to the >> web, on >> my system. >> >> If I read this, this would go around my guards, as they are >> "piggybacking" >> on 443 in and out, right? > > Yeah, they'd certainly be sending whatever information they find as a > ruquest to the server on port 443. It looks like normal web traffic > because it is normal web traffic. > > There's also html5 gathering info. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_fingerprinting > > Here's a fun one. At least this one's Open Source ... > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evercookie > > ciao, > > der.hans > >> Thanks, >> Alexander >> >> Sent from my Galaxy S10+ >> >> On Mon, May 25, 2020, 17:12 Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss < >> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: >> >>> I'm not sure if anything can be done to stop port scanning of ports. >>> >>> I'm really not having a big concern since I have 2 firewalls anyway. I >>> have a firewall on one device and a firewall on my computer. So the >>> only >>> ports they will see is the one on my first device and not the computer. >>> At least that's my theory. >>> >>> On 5/25/20 1:17 AM, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote: >>>> On Sun, 24 May 2020 20:52:43 -0700 >>>> Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> But I close up ports that doesn't need to be >>>>> open in order to make my system safe. You'd be surprised at how many >>>>> ports are open that can leave a system open for attacks. >>>> When you say "close up ports", do you mean make sure there's no >>>> executable listening at that port, firewalling that port so nothing >>>> can >>>> come in or out, or something else? >>>> >>>> SteveT >>>> >>>> Steve Litt >>>> May 2020 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques >>>>       of the Successful Technologist >>>> http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> -- >>> Harold Hartley >>> 17632 N. 5th Pl >>> Phoenix, Arizona 85022 >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Harold Hartley 17632 N. 5th Pl Phoenix, Arizona 85022