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> 3. The HTML on the page is very simple, but malformed -- perhaps look for pages like that (some missing </p> tags)

The w3.org validator says it's okay.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A//voidnull.sdf.org/



That might be so, but it's still a possibly identifying fingerprint.


Sorry, but only people who have never written HTML by hand could think that omitted </p> tags are a useful identifying fingerprint.

It can fit in with word choice, indentation, line length, etc as part of a personal pattern. But by itself it is as meaningful as saying "and".


I have 4 errors, 5 warnings...


So, do I, now. But it's the ISP's over-quote page, not the page originally posted.


Ok, my bad.




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