Device Fingerprinting Aims To Stop Online Fraud

10.03.2009

So why doesn't Threatmetrix attempt to shut down these machines? Taussig offered two reasons. One, he said 70 percent are on foreign soil and the government there may be supporting them or may not really care about them. Also, these machines have very short lifetimes: often they are pulled and rebuilt, and then appear disguised as another machine. He said ultimately it's like "chasing rats through a barn."