[tor-bugs] #31997 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Investigate possible fingerprinting means via the Streams API

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#31997: Investigate possible fingerprinting means via the Streams API
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     Reporter:  gk                        |      Owner:  tbb-team
         Type:  defect                    |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium                    |  Milestone:
    Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal                    |   Keywords:  tbb-fingerprinting
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 The [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Streams_API Streams
 API] landed in Firefox 65 allowing JavaScript to process raw data bit-by-
 bit as soon as it is available on the client side.

 The fingerprinting concerns that immediately jump out here are triggered
 by
 {{{
 There are more advantages too — you can detect when streams start or end,
 chain streams together, handle errors and cancel streams as required, and
 react to the speed of the stream is being read at.
 }}}
 We need to check how fine-grained the timers are for starting/ending
 streams or whether one could get fingerprinted by how fast the client side
 can process incoming data. There might be more.

 The concerns are somewhat mitigated as the big win by combining that API
 with ServiceWorkers is not available to Firefox 68 ESR.

 The bug where this got enabled is:
 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1505122.

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