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I am guessing that the fingerprinting problem extends far beyond the browser. What about connection based fingerprinting? (TCP/IP stack, etc.) What about order
by xtacy 16y ago
I am guessing that the fingerprinting problem extends far beyond the browser. What about connection based fingerprinting? (TCP/IP stack, etc.) What about order of fetching images from a website? What about timing attacks that measure the time taken to load a page (browser caches, cache sizes, eviction policies, upstream squid caches, etc.)? The whole system is way too complicated.
And I feel that having additional extensions/plugins to combat this, unless deployed universally, is still going to contribute to the entropy and help increase the chances of you getting fingerprinted.
Edit: the pdf on the website talks about it. https://panopticlick.eff.org/browser-uniqueness.pdf https://panopticlick.eff.org/browser-uniqueness.pdf
"The Curse of Dimensionality."