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Posted by Walter Dnes (delete the 'z' to on March 20, 2005, 6:25 pm
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> On the internet various sites can obtain information about peoples
> computers such as OS, screen resolution etc etc when surfing.
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> Is there anyway I can prevent this information being retrieved by
> these snoopers (it's a bit like someone sticking their head though
> your living-room window).
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> Is there a tool available or can sites like anonymizer.com help??
I believe that screen resolution is obtained by a javascript function
call. It might also reveal your OS. A sufficiently skilled javascript
programmer can also sniff out what your browser really is, even if your
forge the "User Agent" header.
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