Browsing Insecurity

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2014-10-20 at 13:04 -0600, jd1008 wrote:
> On 10/20/2014 05:07 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sun, 2014-10-19 at 21:04 -0600, jd1008 wrote:
> >> is much worse than I thought :)
> >>
> >> See
> >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/22/canvas_fingerprinting_is_privacy_pirates_new_web_weapon/
> >>
> >> I wonder if web browser developers will do something to counteract this
> >> attack on privacy.
> >>
> > Possibly an interesting topic for another forum, but what has this to do
> > with Fedora?
> >
> > poc
> >
> Fedora distributes Firefox, Seamonkey, Epiphany, among other web browsers.
> Should not Fedora users of these browsers be aware that said browsers are
> being used against them, compromising their privacy and even personal
> security?

Of course they should. The question is whether it merits a discussion
here when the problem is not specific to Fedora, and the solution
doesn't depend on Fedora devels. If we're going to flag every possible
vulnerability on the general Users list, there's going to be little else
going on here.

poc