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Re: [tor-talk] TBB users, please give 1 minute of your time for science



On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 2:15 AM, Mirimir <mirimir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 04/24/2017 07:00 PM, cube@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:>>
>> Could you please do me (and science) a favor and go to my site (
>> https://browserprint.info ) using the Tor Browser Bundle and submit a
>> fingerprint, making sure to fill in the optional questionnaire?
>>
>> At the moment I'm working on detecting a person's underlying
>> operating system and browser family using their browser fingerprint.
>> The aim of this is to detect and defeat browser spoofing. The number
>> of Tor Browser Bundle users who have gone to my site and done this is
>> extremely low, so I'm not able to properly train my detector to
>> defeat the TBB, nor am I able to gauge how effective my detector is
>> against the TBB.
>>
>> Rest assured that I will not use your data for anything malicious,
>> nor will I attempt to deanonymise you in any way.
>
> Not malicious, you say? Browser spoofing is a key feature of Tor
> browser. Defeating that sounds rather malicious.

Were it to be defeated, the feature sounds pretty weak.
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