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No. Microphone requires permission. Your browser can leak a ton of information about your computer silently: window size, screen resolution, pixel density, tim
by superuser2 10y ago
No. Microphone requires permission.
Your browser can leak a ton of information about your computer silently: window size, screen resolution, pixel density, time zone, language, installed fonts, installed plugins, operating system and version, browser version, plugins and versions, etc. There are good reasons for all of this data to be available to JavaScript for legitimate purposes. The AND of all of these datapoints, however, may be unique (or close), particularly if you have ever done something like install a novelty font. The EFF runs a website that fingerprints you and tells you how unique your fingerprint is:
[0] https://panopticlick.eff.org/tracker https://panopticlick.eff.org/tracker