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Verizon Wireless uniquely identifies your traffic for all to see

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It Appears AT&T Does This As Well (Score: 1, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-10-28 17:06 (#2TRE)

"Late Friday, Hoffman-Andrews said he was looking into anecdotal reports that AT&T was using a similar type of identifier."

AT&T is my cell service provider and when I loaded the test site on my phone, it returned a nice, long UID. It did conclude with "type=Dynamic". Can anyone with more knowledge weigh in on whether or not "type=Dynamic" means this is less likely to be a Verizonesque permacookie?

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2014-10-29 18:24 Informative +1 tierack@pipedot.org

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Marked as [Not Junk] by bryan@pipedot.org on 2015-01-02 05:34