SN264: Side-Channel Privacy Leakage

Security Now 2010 - 16k MP3

This week Leo and I examine the many tiny bits of individually non-unique information that inherently leak from a user's web browser out on the Internet. What's surprising is that when all of these individual non-unique bits are gathered together and assembled into a single "fingerprint," the result IS often unique and can thereby be used as a tracking fingerprint to identify individual users' movements as they surf.