How to detect new Machine like Facebook?

Asked 2010-09-30T11:18:16.393

I am actually trying to detect a person, using a computer, Just like facebook. Whenever you sign into facebook using different machine, it detects the new machine and asks you the register it. How do they find out that the person is using another computer. May be they can track the clients MAC or actual IP (but this normally changes upon every reconnection).

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Facebook uses cookies to detect new devices. Deleting all cookies will lead Facebook to ask you to name your new device. Facebook has some tolerance for deleted cookies. For instance, deleting the long-living cookies has no effect if session cookies are set and you are already logged in.

In addition Facebook seems to use the IP to detect when the user logs in far away from their usual location.

answered 2012-08-17T08:58:20.610

How to detect new Machine like Facebook?

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