Re: Detecting incognito mode

I signed up for a table at the IETF hackathon:
https://trac.ietf.org/trac/ietf/meeting/wiki/105hackathon

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 1:25 PM Nataliia Bielova <nataliia.bielova@inria.fr>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> in the past we’ve done some research on browser fingerprinting by browser
> extensions [1], and in particular we have looked into fingerprinting by
> tracking protection extensions: AdBlock, Disconnect, Ghostery and Privacy
> Badger. We analyzed the tradeoff between the privacy loss (how
> fingerprintable users with such extensions are) and the level of protection
> provided by these extensions — see Section 7 for more details.
>
> [1]
> http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Nataliia.Bielova/papers/Guly-etal-18-WPES.pdf
>
>
> Best,
> Nataliia
>
> ---
> Nataliia Bielova
> Researcher at Inria
> http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Nataliia.Bielova/
> https://twitter.com/nataliabielova
>
> > On 18 Jun 2019, at 18:35, Pete Snyder <psnyder@brave.com> wrote:
> >
> > I’m currently not planning on being in Montreal, so sadly I won’t be
> able to join you.  But there is a sig amount of research work in this area
> (identifying / fingerprinting users based on their use of privacy tools,
> and the privacy properties of private browsing modes).
> >
> > I know some of those papers have been shared on this mailing list
> already, but I’d be happy to gather and (re)share some if it’d be helpful.
> >
> > Pete Snyder
> > {pes,psnyder}@brave.com
> > Brave Software
> > Privacy Researcher
> >
> >> On Jun 18, 2019, at 5:14 AM, Samuel Weiler <weiler@w3.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 6/16/19 4:29 PM, Shivan Kaul Sahib wrote:
> >>> Thanks Nick.
> >>> A couple of IETFs ago at the f2f PING meeting, folks discussed
> building a "Panopticlick <https://panopticlick.eff.org/> for Private
> Browsing Mode" i.e. a web page that a user can navigate to while in
> private-browsing mode and check if 1) they are detectable, 2) what
> guarantees their browser provides them while in private-browsing (doesn't
> retain cookies, etc). It would also be somewhat similar to the WebRTC Local
> IP Address leak page we worked on last year (though I hope with prettier
> UI/marketing): https://ntblk.github.io/webrtc-privacy/
> >>> If there's interest and people are showing up for IETF next month in
> Montreal, we could get a table at the hackathon, else async.
> >>
> >> That would amuse me, and I plan to be around.  Anyone else?
> >>
> >
> >
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