Re: VMware and changing computer IP
As some people have already mentioned, Amazon should not be able to see your MAC address. I have done some experiments on amazon in this regard and it turned out that the mac address had no influence over the results.
But, if you want to be on the safe side, you should get rid of the DSL modem. I know that this implies a new internet connection/ provider but, unfortunately, the DSL modem has a mac address, too. It should be printed on its label or it should be found in its settings page (accessible through a browser when one of the following addresses are being requested: 192.168.1.1, 192.168.0.1 or through a dedicated address - depends on the manufacturer of the modem).
However, the simplest solution (but still safe) is virtual machine + VPN.
The most complex and safest solution: new PC/ MAC + new router/ cable modem/ internet dongle/ smartphone tethering solution + new internet provider.
This has recently became very important:
I would NEVER recommend new user on old OS, old PC/ MAC. For those which are still tempted to try this method, please read below about canvas fingerprinting (I know most of you already know about this but it's not a waste of time to refresh some of the information :D): Canvas fingerprinting is being done in the browser, indeed, but it manages to access the video card through a tiny little picture, asking the device to render a tiny 3d image or a line of text. The way this 3d image/ line of text is being renderd identifies the GPU of a specific video card. Furthermore, there are studies indicating that the CPU speed & amount of cache and also the amount of RAM in a specific machine can be established this way. So when you know so many information which are provided by the browser itself (cookies, flash cookies, javascripts...all of them are able to indicate your location, your DNS zone, your plugins, your fonts, your timezone etc etc) and you add another 3 important techinical specs about a specific machine in this equation (CPU, RAM, GPU/ Video Card) you got yourself almost an unique profile.
I checked amazon (as a buyer not with my recently suspended seller profile!) with some browser extensions which indicate if a website is using this fingerprinting method and the results were negative. But you never know when they start using canvas fingerprinting...especially if some of the tests on this new technology have been done by using 294 users on AMAZON Mechanical Turk.
Last edited by Rufus; 02-05-2015 at 06:00 PM.
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