Thus spake coderman (coderman@xxxxxxxxx): > EFF has an interesting tool available: > https://panopticlick.eff.org/ > > technical details at > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/primer-information-theory-and-privacy > > an interesting look at exactly how distinguishable your default > browser configuration may be... FYI, Torbutton has defended against many of these anonymity set reduction attacks for years, despite how EFFs site may make it appear otherwise. https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/design/#requirements https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/design/#attacks (#6) But I'm glad the EFF is raising attention to this detail. I just wish they also pointed people at http://whattheinternetknowsaboutyou.com/ to refresh their memories on that too. After all, in normal operation, your history leaks one fuckload of a lot of bits. And that's a technical term. Sensitive ones too, like what diseases and genetic conditions you may have (via Google Health url history, or Wikipedia url history). It's pretty annoying that the browser makers really have no plan to do anything about that massive privacy leak. -- Mike Perry Mad Computer Scientist fscked.org evil labs
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