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CaveTech on March 7, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Advanced Tor Browser Fingerprinting

Yeah this seems very amateur. Lots of ideas of how to gather information from a user, but no thread about how to connect any of it back together.

The "Uber Cookie" is basically a readout of totally random metadata. The CPU benchmark is substantially different each time I run it.

kardos on March 7, 2016 [–]

That's a pretty uncharitable/dismissive summary. The data he showed is far from "totally random"; see my reply to lucb1e above.

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