Browsing Insecurity

[Ian Malone]

On 21 October 2014 13:03, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

It's more relevant than a lot of things that get discussed here. I'd
bet most Fedora users are using a browser you can do this to.

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