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bigboss asked in Computers & InternetComputer Networking · 8 years ago

in computer network what is fingerprinting?

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  • Todd
    8 years ago
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    Finding out information, such as operating system type, of a machine based upon the characteristics of the network traffic it generates or how it responds to network traffic it receives.

    The linked Wikipedia article gives an overview of how network fingerprinting works on a TCP/IP network (and the references in the article go into more detail).

    Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP/IP_stack_fingerpr...
  • Timothy D. Silvestre
    8 years ago

    ccf

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