[BETA] phpBB Track'n'Trace

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[BETA] phpBB Track'n'Trace

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[BETA] phpBB Track'n'Trace

Small implementation of FingerprintJS 2 for phpBB forum. It allows to track users with multiple accounts by creating a browser fingerprint that is stored in database on each login.

More info about Browser Fingerprinting could be found on EFF's Panopticlick site.

FingerprintJS is configured to not use Flash and not take in to account the UserAgent - this should create safer tracking mechanism that will not change with browser update. Be warned that fingerprint hash keys are estimates - this is not fool proof system.

Hope you like it.

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https://github.com/satanasov/trackntrace

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1. Clone the repo in $phpbb_root_path/ext/anavaro
2. Go in ACP and activate module.
3. Have fin and profit!
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Looks great. :)
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Track'n'Trace update to 3.2

FingerprintJS update to current version.
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Just what I need :D
Sorry! My English is bat ;) !!!
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janus_zonstraal wrote: Thu Jun 15, 2017 7:49 pm Just what I need :D
Hope you like it!

I use it on a live board and helps a lot in tracking multiaccounting.
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Yes I like it.
I have one troll on my board and hopes this will help a lot , if he makes a new account, to recognize him :mrgreen:
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Hello..
plz how its work !! ?? I have 3.1.10 and already have double account !!
I put my username and nothing happened !!

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thanks for help
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OK ... so this extension creates a fingerprint on every login - every time the user enters his username and password.

It's not magical profiling thing.

AH! I never created the English language files ... I'll correct this tonight.
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Satanasov wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2017 12:20 pm OK ... so this extension creates a fingerprint on every login - every time the user enters his username and password.

It's not magical profiling thing.

AH! I never created the English language files ... I'll correct this tonight.
is ok now ?
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This is exactly what I was looking for! Thx! Question: What is being used to fingerprint? Is it HTML5 or what?

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Looks like it uses cookies and that can be easily defeated.

I tested this and it doesn't seem to work. Although I have a significant amount off privacy add-ons for my browser. But I kept cookies on each test user I created. The fingerprints are all unique and nothing matches to the same person.

Can you make this use HTML5 which is more of a permanent tracking ability?
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Can you point me to a tool or article that uses this? I can look and try to improve it.
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It's called HTML5 canvas fingerprinting. Here's one resource. http://sking7.github.io/articles/421075923.html

There are others. Just Google HTML5 canvas fingerprinting.
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I'm testing it too ... and I see unique fingerprints.

The issue with canvas is that it is easy to change and fake. I will search for better ways. And the cookie is used once on each login, to transfer the browser info to the server.
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I'm curious about something.

Some of the names I search don't return anything for a unique key. If I type a random set of letters into the username search it returns saying that the user does not exist; however, a couple of usernames seemingly don't have a fingerprint :?:

Edit: The more and more I go through users it seems the majority of them don't have a fingerprint?
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There are issues ... this is in alpha version ... work is going on it.
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