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> This isn’t a war Fingerprinting and other quasi-malware techniques being used by desirable third party software are absolutely a war, otherwise we wouldn't h
by ajross 1mo ago
> This isn’t a war
Fingerprinting and other quasi-malware techniques being used by desirable third party software are absolutely a war, otherwise we wouldn't have this permission structure in place in the first place. And as much as you believe the contrary, Alibaba et. al. are 100% smarter than you about how to exploit these tricks and will win.
> Not personal data.
LOL
- drdexebtjl 1mo agoI don’t appreciate the personal attack. You don’t know me. Permissions have nothing to do with preventing fingerprinting, they have to do with user control. Every permission you add that the app can inspect is one extra bit of fingerprint, so it’s actually worse. In TFA’s case, if the app was simply not hooked up to an actual audio sink, they would still be able to use this mechanism for fingerprinting, since it’s the processing pipeline itself that leaves the fingerprint. Note that the article isn’t calling out for fingerprinting specifically. I’m sure AliExpress does more fingerprinting than this. The problem is specifically that they’re interfering with multipoint Bluetooth audio.