- From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 17:02:13 +1000
- To: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joe@cdt.org>
- Cc: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>, TAG List <www-tag@w3.org>
On 26 May 2016 at 09:04, Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joe@cdt.org> wrote: > a fascinating use of AudioContext to > fingerprint the device without doing any actual audio output (one > method does an FTT and sets gain to zero (mute) before playing, the > other copies to a OfflineAudioContext buffer). The problem here is that it is highly correlated with other information (like the UA string) since it's based on implementation variation and not machine-based. It will be easily defeated by the planned addition of dithering.
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