Hey Jonny,
First of all, it's interesting to note that you took what, about a month, to come up with a response to my previous post. For future reference, it usually looks a bit better if you can think of a retort within a few minutes, instead of multiple weeks!
As I've said multiple times in this thread, and here are some quotes, as we've already established you're unable to read through an entire post:
Now, I'd suggest asking an adult to read these (you could even play a fun game where you try and read them without adult supervision and get gold stars if you manage to remember an entire quote!), but the jist of them is that it's possible for a webserver to detect your MAC address only if they exploit your browser and execute malicious code.
Next, we can look at a number of news sources:
Hmmm, how about http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/freedom-hosting/, http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/08/06/1350206/tor-wants-you-to-stop-using-windows-disable-javascript, http://www.itworld.com/software/367979/tor-project-stop-using-windows-disable-javascript and say, https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-announce/2013-August/000089.html/https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-53.html (the last ones would be my personal favourite, they're actually the sources referenced in your article!).
If we read through the article, again, you might want to ask a supervising adult to do this for you (we wouldn't want you to hurt that little brain of yours by straining it with adult material!) you can see that the Javascript in question was a browser exploit https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-53.html for the FireFox browser which, to quote the resource from the Tor project:
So it looks like the Javascript in question illegally exploited the browser to execute malicious code and detect the local MAC address of the computer, sending it to the third-party server. Now think back, where have we heard something like that before?
That's right Jonny! In my original quotes!
Today's lesson should have taught you the value of properly sourcing your material before attempting (and failing, badly) to counter an arguement - and, of course, the value of adult supervision while posting on an online forum!
You're more than welcome to save this lesson and repeat it as many times as necessary until the key points have really sunk in.
If you're going to respond with something you think is intelligent, I'd recommend stopping, breathing, counting to 10 slowly, and then sodomising yourself with a rake, you useless, abhorrent, shitstain on our society.
Have a nice day now.
