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pmoriarty
on March 7, 2019
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Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting tec...
This solution is just begging for side-channel attacks.
Firefox had better make sure its timing is not affected by such shenanigans, for instance.
oftenwrong
on March 7, 2019
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I doubt that is avoidable, as the browser would still probably need to render at the false viewport dimensions. For a common adversary, fingerprinting based on timing would be more involved and less useful.
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Firefox had better make sure its timing is not affected by such shenanigans, for instance.