- From: Pete Snyder <psnyder@brave.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 15:06:50 +0100
- To: "public-privacy@w3.org" <public-privacy@w3.org>
Hi all,
As promised, here are some papers describing the accuracy and (in two cases) frequency of using font enumeration to finger print browsers.
I’ll try to come up with a first, goof-attempt at a proposed change well in advance of our next call too.
Laperdrix, Pierre, Walter Rudametkin, and Benoit Baudry. "Beauty and the beast: Diverting modern web browsers to build unique browser fingerprints." 2016 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP). IEEE, 2016.
https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01285470/document
Nikiforakis, Nick, et al. "Cookieless monster: Exploring the ecosystem of web-based device fingerprinting." 2013 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. IEEE, 2013.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/6547086/6547088/06547132.pdf
Eckersley, Peter. "How unique is your web browser?." International Symposium on Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.
https://panopticlick.eff.org/static/browser-uniqueness.pdf
Pete Snyder
{pes,psnyder}@brave.com
Brave Software
Privacy Researcher
Received on Friday, 19 April 2019 14:07:15 UTC