Re: Towards a getUserMedia/enumerateDevices fingerprinting solution

On 2019-02-10 16:49, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
>> 1. It is assumed that:
>> - Leaking any fingerprinting information silently through
>> enumerateDevices is an issue.
> I am not certain there's any consensus here. The WG, when designing this
> iteration of enumerateDevices, has formerly decided that leaking:
> 
> a) whether or not camera and/or microphone is present
> b) the number of audio and video devices present
> c) whether these devices are the same as when the page was previously
> granted access to them (aka "device ID is stable")
> 
> is an acceptable amount of leakage.
> 
Just to confirm: what Harald says above matches my recollection. And 
there was a lot of input on that being able to pick the devices the user 
ended up preferring last time is needed to build user friendly applications.

Received on Sunday, 10 February 2019 19:23:04 UTC