http://webkay.robinlinus.com/scripts/social-media.js that's a cool trick, thanks for this!
Show HN: What every browser knows about you
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#112Is there a noscript equivalent for other browsers apart from firefox? Most of the recommendations were "noscript". And I had a lot of info leaking.
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#113Someone should make a smartphone app version of this to demonstrate what is accessible via the app permissions that most people just blindly accept at install time.
"Here are all the nudie pics on your phone as identified by our nudity detection algorithm. Here is a list of your probable work and family contacts. Here is the MMS that you really don't want this app to send on your behalf!"
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#114> Geo Coordinates: [lat,lng about 90 miles from the correct location] I find that error hilarious, because I setup correct in-addr.arpa and ip6.arpa reverse DNS entries for my (static) IP, which returns a domain name that has an accurate LOC record. My IP is two DNS queries away from my location (~10m precision), yet most of the time everyone uses these geoip databases instead of LOC.
I found it shockingly accurate -- it gave the address of a house I can see out my window. I'm on an entirely wired connection, so I know it's not doing it via any sort of wi-fi location, but perhaps my ISP lays out IPs very predictably or something.
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#115Someone should make a smartphone app version of this to demonstrate what is accessible via the app permissions that most people just blindly accept at install time. "Here are all the nudie pics on your phone as identified by our nudity detection algorithm. Here is a list of your probable work and family contacts. Here is the MMS that you really don't want this app to send on your behalf!"
That's probably against Apple's app guidelines.
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#116Not much of interest showed up for me. Monitor resolution, browser ID, geo location, OS and public IP. My main browser, Firefox, has uBlock and Self-Destructing Cookies. Tried it in both IE11 and Edge (both of which I never use), and I got pretty much the same result. Firefox and Epiphany on Gentoo Linux also failed to startle me. I'd like to see a screenshot of a "worst case scenario".
> Not much of interest showed up for me. Monitor resolution, browser ID, geo location, OS and public IP.
Are you saying it showed your geo location without having prompted for it, and that you're OK with that?
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#117Someone should make a smartphone app version of this to demonstrate what is accessible via the app permissions that most people just blindly accept at install time. "Here are all the nudie pics on your phone as identified by our nudity detection algorithm. Here is a list of your probable work and family contacts. Here is the MMS that you really don't want this app to send on your behalf!"
I'm guessing you're talking about android?
Apps on iOS don't prompt for permissions at install they prompt when they try to access something, eg photos, contacts, etc
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#118Someone should make a smartphone app version of this to demonstrate what is accessible via the app permissions that most people just blindly accept at install time. "Here are all the nudie pics on your phone as identified by our nudity detection algorithm. Here is a list of your probable work and family contacts. Here is the MMS that you really don't want this app to send on your behalf!"
I'm guessing you're talking about android? Apps on iOS don't prompt for permissions at install they prompt when they try to access something, eg photos, contacts, etc
They do that on Android too now.
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#119After 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…
You can use Tor browser without Tor: https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/2ywmji/is_it_possible_...
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#120I would be interested in reading about how all of these are detected. I know how some of them are, but not all. I predict others are in this boat, and interested in learning!
Look at the code (you know where to get that right :-)), its split into scrips for each of the tests.