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Show HN: What every browser knows about you
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#52Not sure why battery is exposed; I guess that's the result of making browsers more like OSes.
The only really annoying thing is the idiotic WebRTC settings. Their love for "data channels" with zero prompts, despite having no legitimate uses[1], ignores your proxy settings. This should be fixed.
1: I asked someone involved with WebRTC. They suggested "maybe a page wants to communicate with your fridge directly" as a serious use of WebRTC data channels.
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#53Ok, so it doesn't know anything but my OS and screen resolution. Seems good to me, considering I'm not using NoScript and the like.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
That sounds awesome, care to share a few more details?
I actually locked myself out except for console access, so some of this is from memory/Googling: 1. Connect Raspberry Pi to local LAN and get wifi setup (I VLAN wireless traffic, so I have it listening/connected to both) 2. Change iptables default policy to DROP 3. Add relevant ALLOW rules to make sure basic stuff like DHCP still works. I added an allow rule to talk to another machine that runs a PHP script that talk…
>I actually locked myself out
Hate it when that happens to me...every week.
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#55Between NoScript and Random Agent Spoofer, nothing is correct except my resolution and a couple of plug-ins (like Flash and VLC). Shutting NoScript off doesn't make too much difference, and I don't think RAS does that much (some sites seem to see through it), so it must be one of the other addons (uBlock Origin, Disconnect, BetterPrivacy, HTTPS Everywhere).
Ironically, not using those plugins is a fingerprint in and of itself.
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#56OS X 10.11.4: Safari 9.1 : Minimal HW/SW detection, No social media leak, No network scan (after click) Safari 9.1.1 (Tech Preview) : Minimal HW/SW detection, No social media leak, No network scan (after click) Chrome 49.0.2623.110 : Full HW/SW detection, Social media login detected, Network scanning (after click) Firefox 45.0.1 : Full HW/SW detection, Social media login detected, Network scanning (after click)
Wow. Safari is so strict, but I wonder if that's because Safari is (my assumption) a less fat browser after all.
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#57OS X 10.11.4: Safari 9.1 : Minimal HW/SW detection, No social media leak, No network scan (after click) Safari 9.1.1 (Tech Preview) : Minimal HW/SW detection, No social media leak, No network scan (after click) Chrome 49.0.2623.110 : Full HW/SW detection, Social media login detected, Network scanning (after click) Firefox 45.0.1 : Full HW/SW detection, Social media login detected, Network scanning (after click)
do you have adblocking or ghostery on one or more of your browsers?
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#58I'm not quite sure what this is meant to prove - all of what was revealed for me seems tame. Is it meant to scare users to disable JS?
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#60I didn't realize that browser would spill my local IP address, or might be able to scan local devices in the same network. Shouldn't browsers have settings to enable/disable access to device sensors or data?