Bypassing Safari 17's advanced audio fingerprinting protection
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Re: Bypassing Safari 17's advanced audio fingerprinting protection
#2Fingerprint states that this service is for fraud detection, but they are actively discussing how they are circumventing browser privacy protections.
So as a user my preference not to be fingerprinted or tracked takes a back seat in the name of fraud detection?
So we should allow police to wiretap in the name of crime prevention?
Re: Bypassing Safari 17's advanced audio fingerprinting protection
#3Fingerprint states that this service is for fraud detection, but they are actively discussing how they are circumventing browser privacy protections. So as a user my preference not to be fingerprinted or tracked takes a back seat in the name of fraud detection? So we should allow police to wiretap in the name of crime prevention?
Tale as old as time. Think of all of the legislative attacks on encryption in the name of protecting people.
Re: Bypassing Safari 17's advanced audio fingerprinting protection
#4Tl;dr: Apple’s implementation adds random, uniformly distributed noise, so running many samples one can back out the noise.
Kind of a naive design but easily fixed.
Re: Bypassing Safari 17's advanced audio fingerprinting protection
#5Tl;dr: Apple’s implementation adds random, uniformly distributed noise, so running many samples one can back out the noise. Kind of a naive design but easily fixed.
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Re: Bypassing Safari 17's advanced audio fingerprinting protection
#6Fingerprint states that this service is for fraud detection, but they are actively discussing how they are circumventing browser privacy protections. So as a user my preference not to be fingerprinted or tracked takes a back seat in the name of fraud detection? So we should allow police to wiretap in the name of crime prevention?
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Re: Bypassing Safari 17's advanced audio fingerprinting protection
#7Putting a node graph audio API in the browser was silly. It should have been just audio worklets.
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Based on the article, it sounds like this doesn't activate a device's microphone at all. If it did, most (all?) browsers would give a pop-up requesting permission for that.