[tor-talk] Audio fingerprinting

[Flipchan]

Isnt it block java? As simple as that

"mrnobody at mail-on.us" <mrnobody at mail-on.us> skrev: (26 maj 2016 08:23:34 CEST)
>http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/19/audio-fingerprinting-being-used-to-track-web-users-study-finds/
>
>A wide-scale study of online trackers carried out by researchers at
>Princeton University has identified a new technique being used to try
>to
>strip web users of their privacy, as well as quantifying the ongoing
>usage of some better-known tracking techniques.
>
>The new technique unearthed by the study is based on fingerprinting a
>machine’s audio stack via the AudioContext API. So it’s not collecting
>sound played or recorded on a machine but rather harvesting the audio
>signature of the individual machine and using that as an identifier to
>track a web user.
>
>I understand that these methods are not possible without javascript,
>are
>they?
>The example provided in the webpage:
>https://audiofingerprint.openwpm.com/
>uses fingerprintjs2 library.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>
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