Your internet traffic can be tracked, news at 11
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Browser 'Favicons' Can Be Used as Undeletable 'Supercookies' To Track You Online - Slashdot
According to a researcher, favicons can be a security vulnerability that could let websites track your movement and bypass VPNs, incognito browsing status, and other traditional methods of cloaking your movement online. From a report: The tracking method is called a Supercookie, and it's the work...
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More info that's not vice.com or a research paper:
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@izzion From a comment:
just opening the menu is going to cause a whole bunch of address lookups and data fetches which is really stupid to do just to present a flashy thing on a menu.
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If common folk knew how internet works, they would be terrified all the time.
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@HardwareGeek I'm pretty sure every browser except IE caches those damn things exactly so that doesn't happen.
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@MrL said in Your internet traffic can be tracked, news at 11:
If common folk knew how internet works, they would be terrified all the time.
Guess those are the people who get a VPN service?
To me, VPN services prompt the question "Do I trust this random service who sponsors this random youtuber more than my current ISP?". And the answer is "Maybe if I ever go to China, but if I do that I'll probably leave my electronics at home so there'll be no point.".
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@TwelveBaud said in Your internet traffic can be tracked, news at 11:
@HardwareGeek I'm pretty sure every browser except IE caches those damn things exactly so that doesn't happen.
Actually, the cache is the "super cookie" the article mentions.
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@PleegWat you mean that you have less trust in a random business that could be anywhere in the world and could possibly do anything they'd like with your data, including leaving it totally unsecured for anyone to hack, and could go bust any day the CEO decides to blow up your money on cheap hookers, rather than in an ISP who is necessarily in your own country (and thus subject to its laws), under a (presumably) strict regulatory framework?
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@remi said in Your internet traffic can be tracked, news at 11:
@PleegWat you mean that you have less trust in a random business that could be anywhere in the world and could possibly do anything they'd like with your data, including leaving it totally unsecured for anyone to hack, and could go bust any day the CEO decides to blow up your money on cheap hookers, rather than in an ISP who is necessarily in your own country (and thus subject to its laws), under a (presumably) strict regulatory framework?
Not to mention that if I was FBI and I wanted to look for traffic of people who may have something to hide, it would be a lot easier to eavesdrop on some servers that shady people tend to use, than to have to find their traffic in the giant haystack of the whole internet.
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That's quite devious. But I would think that adding 30 redirects to a page load would be obvious and annoying, so I wouldn't expect any sites to actually do this. Why would anyone care to track me on an anonymous site (cos obviously, if I log in, you don't need shenanigans like this to get me a user ID) between sessions anyway?
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@dangeRuss said in Your internet traffic can be tracked, news at 11:
@remi said in Your internet traffic can be tracked, news at 11:
@PleegWat you mean that you have less trust in a random business that could be anywhere in the world and could possibly do anything they'd like with your data, including leaving it totally unsecured for anyone to hack, and could go bust any day the CEO decides to blow up your money on cheap hookers, rather than in an ISP who is necessarily in your own country (and thus subject to its laws), under a (presumably) strict regulatory framework?
Not to mention that if I was FBI and I wanted to look for traffic of people who may have something to hide, it would be a lot easier to eavesdrop on some servers that shady people tend to use, than to have to find their traffic in the giant haystack of the whole internet.
I've heard rumours (years ago) that the NSA runs a significant fraction of tor exit nodes.
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@remi said in Your internet traffic can be tracked, news at 11:
@PleegWat you mean that you have less trust in a random business that could
be anywhere in the world and could possibly do anything they'd like with your data, including leaving it totally unsecured for anyone to hack, and could go bust any day the CEO decides to blow up your money on cheap hookerspossibly be bad actors, rather than in an ISP who isnecessarily in your own country (and thus subject to its laws), under a (presumably) strict regulatory frameworkknown to be a bad actor?
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@hungrier something something known unknowns and unknown unknowns...
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@PleegWat said in Your internet traffic can be tracked, news at 11:
@dangeRuss said in Your internet traffic can be tracked, news at 11:
@remi said in Your internet traffic can be tracked, news at 11:
@PleegWat you mean that you have less trust in a random business that could be anywhere in the world and could possibly do anything they'd like with your data, including leaving it totally unsecured for anyone to hack, and could go bust any day the CEO decides to blow up your money on cheap hookers, rather than in an ISP who is necessarily in your own country (and thus subject to its laws), under a (presumably) strict regulatory framework?
Not to mention that if I was FBI and I wanted to look for traffic of people who may have something to hide, it would be a lot easier to eavesdrop on some servers that shady people tend to use, than to have to find their traffic in the giant haystack of the whole internet.
I've heard rumours (years ago) that the NSA runs a significant fraction of tor exit nodes.
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