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Tangentially related: It's wild what new data can be used for fingerprinting. [1] describes using magnetic signals to fingerprint a device. [2] describes ident
by huntertwo 5y ago
Tangentially related:
It's wild what new data can be used for fingerprinting. [1] describes using magnetic signals to fingerprint a device. [2] describes identifying inputted text from CPU interrupt data.
I wouldn't be surprised if health data can also be used to fingerprint users, even across devices. I wonder what lower level runtime information (e.g. CPU interrupt data) is available to apps.
[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3319535.3339810 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3319535.3339810
[2] https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/254306 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/254306