[tor-bugs] #12995 [Tor Browser]: default font seems seems to leak system locale information

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#12995: default font seems seems to leak system locale information
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 Reporter:  cypherpunks  |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  defect       |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:
Component:  Tor Browser  |        Version:
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 I recently changed the default system locale on my GNU Linux system, and I
 noticed that afterwards the default font used on web pages in Tor Browser
 had changed (I didn't change the version/language of Tor Browser).

 I suppose that this means that an attacker can guess a user's locale based
 on the font used to display a page.

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