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I remember playing with this at least 8 years ago. It's really scary that there's enough information disclosure in browsers that it's possible to do this.
by cyphar 11y ago
I remember playing with this at least 8 years ago. It's really scary that there's enough information disclosure in browsers that it's possible to do this.
- zbjornson 11y agoWhat do you see being disclosed? The origin has control over the windows it creates and nothing else.
- beeboop 11y agoYou can very uniquely identify people based on browser positioning and sizing. This tester uses it I believe: https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://panopticlick.eff.org/
- softawre 11y ago> really scary This is really scary to you? I get that you can do fingerprints, and honestly there's a LOT more than just browser window position/size in them, but "really scary"? Maybe we need to stop exaggerating on this sort of stuff if we want people to take us seriously.
- cyphar 11y agoFine. It's scary that browsers allow for so much fingerprinting. This toy webapp is an example of a larger picture of "things that we really shouldn't allow to happen". So "really scary" was referring to the issue of browser fingerprinting as a whole, not just one toy webapp.