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February 24, 2017

Fingerprinting Every Browser But Tor

Filed under: Browsers,Cybersecurity,Tor — Patrick Durusau @ 3:44 pm

Browser Fingerprinting Tech Works Across Different Browsers for the First Time by Amy Nordrum.

Yinzhi Cao and colleagues have developed browser fingerprint code that identifies 99.24 percent of users across browsers.

Cao’s paper, (Cross-)Browser Fingerprinting via OS and
Hardware Level Features
.

Github: https://github.com/Song-Li/cross_browser.

Demo: http://www.uniquemachine.org

The lead for the story was buried at the end of the post:

The only browser that his method didn’t work on was Tor. (emphasis added)

Your call, you can take care of your own security or be provably insecure.

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