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

On 2013-12-10 17:43, cowwoc wrote:
> 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

I don't know who is behind that pdf, or what I should take away from it. 
There are opinions going both ways.

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> Gili
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Received on Tuesday, 10 December 2013 18:43:13 UTC