Frost: [Browser] Fingerprinting Remotely Using OPFS-Based SSD Timing [pdf]
7 points by simjnd 3 hours ago | 2 comments

vivzkestrel 7 minutes ago
a bit off topic but on the topic of fingerprinting here, anyone knows how reddit fingerprinting works at a rough level?
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Bender 2 hours ago
I see they are testing this on a Mac. I am curious what the test results look like if the users home directory or even the dot directories are tmpfs. On Linux .bash_login can repopulate dot directories from a archive directory think skeleton files and the dot directories can be ephemeral mounted as tmpfs. The person can have a command to commit their ephemeral directories back to the archive if they want to "keep their changes" so to speak. Or automate it on .bash_logout.

    du --max-depth 0 -h -c .cache .config .local
    767M    .cache
    278M    .config
    2.2M    .local
    1.1G    total
It's a bit of space on this CachyOS laptop but it's doable.
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