Researchers Demonstrate New Technology For Fingerprinting Tor Users' Computers - Conspiracies

Researchers Demonstrate New Technology For Fingerprinting Tor Users' Computers (thehackernews.com)

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– SuicideTruthbomber 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

This does not fingerprint users' computers, but rather websites based on the traffic patterns they generate.

From the abstract:

We conclude that, although WF attacks may be possible, it is likely infeasible to carry them out in the real world while monitoring more than a small set of websites.

Fingerprinting Attacks on Tor in the Real World https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity22/presentation/cherubin

Online Website Fingerprinting: Evaluating Website Fingerprinting Attacks on Tor in the Real World (prepublication) https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec22summer_cherubin.pdf

Video and slides of this upcoming presentation should be available in May 2022.

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