So there are lots of ways to figure out who people are, and I am sure I dont know all of them, but I bet I know some you dont.
Lets put together a list of known ones. Ill start.
(If we dont get a big list, which we may not, for bonus points add techniques to ease drop/intercept information)
fingerprinting techniques
- browser (duh)
- encrypted network traffic analysis, see mullvad link here https://mullvad.net/en/vpn/daita
- stylometry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylometry
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Fonts are a big one and can be a very descriptive fingerprint.
There are applications out there that muddle your installed fonts by making it look like you have a ton of fonts you don’t actually have.
But yes, they can see what fonts you have and can tell your OS and other computers you may have used if you’ve downloaded the same third party fonts for all of them.
If one of those computers was known to be yours at one time, then even if you lock away your identity later on another PC your fonts can give you away.