[ubuntu-uk] Websites and your PC hardware details

[Rowan Berkeley]

On 03/02/13 10:16, Byte Soup wrote:
>
> Hi all, just wanted to get the Ubuntu UK list take on this story from 
> the BBC below
>
> http://bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21304049 
> <http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21304049>
>
> Yes the guy was using windows, but will our browsers also give up this 
> sort of info down to the hardware level when running a Linux box too? 
> I know we can use a user agent switcher on some browsers, but I'm 
> wondering what is given up by default. Perhaps it's just something 
> particular to windows?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
>
>
Foreign affairs is my main interest, and I have become very cynical 
about it. There has been what the media call "a steady drumbeat" of 
stories about Chinese hackers going on for years. I regard them all as 
basically fabricated by the companies concerned, in conjunction with the 
Pentagon's CYBERCOM, which is all about information manipulation. 
Occasionally I encounter these US govt cyber troopers on my blog, and 
they are absolutely bare faced liars, in my view. The US is very busily 
manufacturing casus belli (fourth declension plural casus, long u) with 
China, if you hadn't noticed. It's the next big target.
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