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A comment on Protecting user identity against Silhouette.
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> Recently [emphasis mine] we learned of a new technique for discovering the identity of logged-in users to online platforms including Twitter
> The issue was reported to us in December 2017 [emphasis mine]
This appears to be some new definition of ‘recently’ of which I was hitherto unaware.
It’s definitely a clever attack, and definitely a clever set of fixes. But a better phrase would have been ‘some time ago’ rather than ‘recently.’
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> Recently [emphasis mine] we learned of a new technique for discovering the identity of logged-in users to online platforms including Twitter
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> The issue was reported to us in December 2017 [emphasis mine]
This appears to be some new definition of ‘recently’ of which I was hitherto unaware.
It’s definitely a clever attack, and definitely a clever set of fixes. But a better phrase would have been ‘some time ago’ rather than ‘recently.’