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> Your Device is propably laying on a Table I'm one of those heathens that actually puts the desktop tower on top of the desk. Got me.
Your desktop has a gyroscope?
Heh, the facebook like detection thing failed utterly. Not sure how, or why. But, I am not even logged into facebook on this computer - and never have been. :-) But a very cool hack.
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Your desktop has a gyroscope?
No, and the website reported as such. I guess if you have no motion/orientation sensors of any kind it just guesses it's on a table.
@Capira since you're so readily fixing things based on comments (awesome), here's another one. You write "To prevent your browser from accessing your Device Orientation use NoScript." under the Network Scan section. Looks like copy / pasta.
Thanks for the Feedback! Fixed. ;)
Amazing project!
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There are some really cool uses of webrtc data channels. e.g. https://webtorrent.io/
Yeah, and that's also a great example of what should NOT be allowed without the user's EXPLICIT permission - simply visiting a link should not result in a torrent download!
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There are some really cool uses of webrtc data channels. e.g. https://webtorrent.io/
Yeah, and that's also a great example of what should NOT be allowed without the user's EXPLICIT permission - simply visiting a link should not result in a torrent download!
How will you know that a download is desired or not?
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You should leave it in, if the whole point is to demonstrate the capabilities. It's incredible that a webpage can do that.
I think a button would be more appropriate. Not everyone reads HN on a network they control and port scanning one's neighbors can lead to some unpleasant conversations.
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Yeah, and that's also a great example of what should NOT be allowed without the user's EXPLICIT permission - simply visiting a link should not result in a torrent download!
Simply visiting a link downloads dozens, sometimes hundreds of files without your explicit permissions. It simply uses a different protocol.
I can understand not wanting to scare people with "Allow P2P Data Channel", but ignoring proxy settings and revealing all IPs is unacceptable. WebRTC folks toss off these concerns with "there's no way to prevent tracking so heh".
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Yeah, and that's also a great example of what should NOT be allowed without the user's EXPLICIT permission - simply visiting a link should not result in a torrent download!
Simply visiting a YouTube link should result in the video to start streaming right away though? How will you know that a download is desired or not?
Ideally the user can control whether all types of content get loaded—images, CSS, JavaScript, web fonts—or even allow/deny individual domains or files, but so far browsers require an extension like uMatrix for that.
After checking out the demo, it was scary to realize that websites can access an unexpectedly large amount of information about me. So I installed Tor with the Noscript addon and the demo was not able to access any details at all. Well it did show my ISP and hardware details, but it was wrong. This should be the default setup in a browser, Tor+Noscript. The issues of constant captcha harassment and slow browsing spee…
That's just unrealistic for most people, especially the TOR recommendation. Script blockers are troublesome even for tech savvy individuals, though I highly recommend blocking scripts for anyone who can "handle it". Gorhill's work (via uBlock Origin) provides a much more realistic way of disabling these kinds of malicious and/or invasive actions. Not sure if they're currently blocked, but he's made strides to block crapware and its kin, so this might not be so far off.