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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to Privacy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity

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Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: Analyzing their SSD activity
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Telltale SSD activity can be measured in the browser using simple JavaScript.
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    Interesting stuff.

    I assume this also needs high precision timers, which are disabled in many cases. I’m also assuming that the reason the file needs to be quite so large is to ensure that caching doesn’t ruin the measurements.

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