[tor-talk] Tor browser can be fingerprinted

Michael Wolf mikewolf53 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 16 17:59:26 UTC 2013


On 9/16/2013 5:45 AM, Alexandre Guillioud wrote:
> "Also it is worth mentioning that disabling Javascript does not protect
> against this type of fingerprinting, as it is available to CSS too:
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Media_queries"
> 
> It could be available to css, but without javascript, it can't be sended !
> 

Not true.  The media query can be designed such that certain resources
(like an image or webfont) are only loaded when the screen is a certain
size.  The web server would then be able to determine what size the
screen was based on which resources the browser requested.

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