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Re:Mass cellphone surveillance experiment in Spain by vuln on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @06:10PM (#21392637)
You can still be fingerprinted based off the scratches on the lens.

https://www.insider.com/facebook-patent-photos-fingerprint-d...

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Re:Mass cellphone surveillance experiment in Spain by gradys on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @09:02PM (#21393688)
If someone has hacked your computer such that they can control your camera, how worried are you about being fingerprinted?
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Re:Mass cellphone surveillance experiment in Spain by autoexec on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @06:24PM (#21392758)
I'm pretty sure I've seen similar attempts to identify a specific camera using things like sensor noise patterns and lens aberrations
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Re:Mass cellphone surveillance experiment in Spain by hutzlibu on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @07:32PM (#21393222)
Maybe, but more important, a potential hacker cannot see me nor my family anymore
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Re:Mass cellphone surveillance experiment in Spain by Avery3R on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @06:17PM (#21392697)
that link is giving me a 404
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