Re:NordVPN confirms it was hacked
by orbital-decay on Monday October 21, 2019 @12:49PM
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Sure, I do understand that, and yes IP hiding does matter. I'm merely pointing out that disabling Javascript (and eventually enabling some set unique to you, to un-break a broken site) is just another way to leak some bits one might want to be aware of. Faking the common fingerprinting vectors known to expose you uniquely is possibly a better way... until the new ones are found. I don't know. The leaking bits need to be carefully accounted for, and you don't know the site userbase for sure to blend into the largest cluster possible. I don't think that fingerprinting is something that can be fought by the end user efficiently, besides the very obvious things like blocking the major vectors.
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Re:NordVPN confirms it was hacked
by danShumway on Monday October 21, 2019 @12:53PM
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That's a good point.
> Faking the common fingerprinting vectors known to expose you uniquely is possibly a better way...
I wish there was more research being done around this. I appreciate what Firefox is doing, and I assume there are good reasons for their fingerprinting strategies. They know more than me about this stuff. But... it still sets off some alarm bells in my head. It seems like it would be strictly better to spoof location/canvas/microphone data instead of only blocking it.