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Comment by zmanian

The site attacks seems to fail in Tor Browser. It returns a list of sites that have nothing to do with my browser history. Probably because Tor Browser reduces the time precision.[1]

It seems like it would be nice to require some sort of user privilege escalation like accessing location, or webcam to access high precision timing. This would close off a huge class of time related side channels.

[1]https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1517

parent zmanian 11 years ago

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