Re: Bug 23934 - Proposal: Always launch permission prompt to avoid leakage

On 10/12/2013 9:58 AM, Stefan Håkansson LK wrote:
> On 2013-12-10 02:26, Eric Rescorla wrote:
>> For the record, I am opposed to this entire piece of Jan-Ivar's proposal.
>>
>> As has been observed many times, there are plenty of opportunities
>> for fingerprinting and so going through these gyrations to make
>> it fractionally more difficult is silly.
> Is there broad consensus that there is no point in trying to be careful
> when it comes to fingerprinting - that it is a battle that is already lost?
I'd like to draw your attention to 
http://www.w3.org/wiki/images/7/7d/Is_preventing_browser_fingerprinting_a_lost_cause.pdf

Gili

Received on Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:42:44 UTC