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Seems like it could be reproduced easily by a typical HN reader. “Fetch a site a thousand times and check the served JavaScript for weirdness” isn’t exactly a h
by floatingatoll 7y ago
Seems like it could be reproduced easily by a typical HN reader. “Fetch a site a thousand times and check the served JavaScript for weirdness” isn’t exactly a high bar. Defining weirdness is the secret sauce for sure, though!
Battery condition and orientation are useful for fingerprinting devices, alongside the more commonly-known canvas attacks.
Your battery status may be used to track you online, 98 comments (2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12208880 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12208880
- jlv2 7y agoYour battery status and orientation aren't going to be useful for tracking you in a "future attack on targeted users", since by then both would have completely changed.
- floatingatoll 7y agoIf the purpose is to identify you as a visitor to the site, then once they have identified you, that goal has been met. You're assuming that they must, in the future, again identify you: that is not at all necessary for e.g. spear phishing, blackmail, or other attacks.
- ta999999171 7y agoCombine it with 300 other metrics slurped up by similarly "innocuous" software, and, presto - ad-network!