Stealth Cookie on YOUR PC linked to database… Privacy?

People, for better or worse, have always been a little touchy about unique identifiers. Social security numbers. Barcodes. RFID. GUIDs. In this day and age of massive registration databases, of drive-by identity theft, a number can be a very powerful thing. You may remember the sound and fury over the Pentium III processor’s embedded serial number, a feature which could have been used (potentially) to track a user’s computer without the user’s knowledge or consent. This was back in 1999 …