[tor-talk] TBB does not employ fontconfig settings

l.m ter.one.leeboi at hush.com
Thu May 28 18:48:14 UTC 2015


Hello,

To answer your question you might find the Tor Browser design document
[0] a useful read. Font support leads to browser/system
fingerprinting. Plugins and scripts can extract font support lists,
html5 canvas elements can be used together with font
support/rendering, and the way fonts are rendered can lead to OS and
video card driver fingerprints.

tl;dr -- Font-support based fingerprinting remains an open-issue in
the current version of TBB.

--leeroy



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