commit 6a4c6520db7c4ebbf444b9e2639ba570e94c9fd3 Author: Damian Johnson atagar@torproject.org Date: Sun Jan 29 13:15:24 2017 -0800

Drop 'Panopticlick' project idea

Kinda confusing since they called it 'Fingerprint Central' instead but from what I can tell this was Pierre Laperdrix's project last year. --- getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml | 54 -------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 54 deletions(-)

diff --git a/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml b/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml index 5671320..00f1d73 100644 --- a/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml +++ b/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml @@ -896,60 +896,6 @@ the codebase that you want to work on. </p> </li>

- <a id="panopticlick"></a> - <li> - <b>Panopticlick</b> - <br> - Likely Mentors: <i>Georg (GeKo)</i>, <i>G&uuml;nes Acar</i>, <i>Nicolas (boklm)</i> - <p> - -The <a href="https://panopticlick.eff.org">Panopticlick project by the EFF</a> -revolutionized how people think about <a -href="https://panopticlick.eff.org/static/browser-uniqueness.pdf%22%3Ebrowser -fingerprinting</a>, both by developing tests and metrics to measure browser -fingerprintability, and by crowdsourcing the evaluation and contribution of -individual browser features to overall fingerprintability. - - </p> - <p> - -Unfortunately, the way Panopticlick is designed <a -href="https://blog.torproject.org/blog/effs-panopticlick-and-torbutton%22%3Emakes -it difficult</a> to evaluate defenses to browser fingerprinting, especially -for browsers with a relatively small userbase such as Tor Browser. This is -because any approach we take to reduce fingerprinting automatically makes our -users more distinct from the previous users who submitted their fingerprint -data to the EFF. Indeed, it is also impossible to ever expect that users of -one browser will ever be able to blend in with users of another browser -(Chrome users will always be distinguishable from Firefox users for example, -based on feature set alone). - - </p> - <p> - -To address this, we would like to have <a -href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6119%22%3Eour own -fingerprint test suite</a> to evaluate the fingerprintability of each browser -feature for users running a specific Tor Browser version. There are also <a -href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?keywords=~tbb-fingerprinting%... -fingerprinting tests</a> we can add beyond those deployed by Panopticlick. - </p> - <p> - -For this project, the student would develop a website that users can -voluntarily visit to test and record their Tor Browser fingerprint. The user -should get feedback on how she performed and the test results should be -available in a machine readable format (e.g. JSON), broken down by Tor Browser -version. In a second step one could think about adding more sophisticated -tests or supporting other browser vendors that might want to test the -uniformity amongst their userbase as well. Of course, results from each -browser would also need to be broken down by both browser implementation and -version, so that results would only reflect the population of that specific -implementation. - - </p> - </li> - <a id="stegotorus"></a> <li> <b>Make Stegotorus deployment ready</b>