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No boundaries for user identities: Web trackers exploit browser login managers - Freedom to Tinker
| | blog.torproject.org
Browser Fingerprinting: An Introduction and the Challenges Ahead | The Tor Project
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| | In the past few years, a technique called browser fingerprinting has received a lot of attention because of the risks it can pose to privacy. What is it? How is it used? What is Tor Browser doing against it? In this blog post, I'm here to answer these questions.
| | textslashplain.com
Browser Password Managers: Threat Models - text/plain
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| | All major browsers have a built-in password manager. So we should use them, right? I Do I use my browser's password manager because it's convenient: with sync, I get all of my passwords on all of my devices. This convenience means that I can use a different password for every website, improving my security. This...
| | blog.citp.princeton.edu
I never signed up for this! Privacy implications of email tracking - CITP Blog
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| | In this post I discuss a new paper that will appear at PETS 2018, authored by myself, Jeffrey Han, and Arvind Narayanan. What happens when you open an email and allow it to display embedded images and pixels? You may expect the sender to learn that you've read the email, and which device you used [...]
| | ndanes.com
I switched [back] to iPhone from Android: Pros & Cons after 4 weeks ยท Nicholas A. Danes, PhD
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| [AI summary] The author discusses their decision to switch back to an iPhone from Android after four weeks, weighing privacy, usability, and convenience factors, with a focus on iMessage compatibility, app quality, and FOSS support.