REAL-ID Phone Access Coming Soon
Cathal Garvey
cathalgarvey at cathalgarvey.me
Tue Mar 3 03:50:07 PST 2015
> Hold on there. These are two different beasts. DNT is "please don't
> track me" and of course it won't work.
In fact, it's worse. DNT, if set either way, is another pure bit of
browser entropy; it actually *assists* certain forms of tracking,
because it can be expected to remain invariant between visits of a given
browser/user.
This is just one of the things making me think the "web" needs a total
re-boot to redesign for security from the boots-up. Servers shouldn't
require user-agents to know how to treat visitors. Scripting is useful
for a rich experience but should be more sand-boxable (ideally, scripts
can be sandboxed to their position in the DOM tree!) and tightly
permission'd. Canvas and other elements should behave deterministically;
this should be part of browser test-suites. Browsers should be allowed
cache fonts but not disclose to the server whether they have a font in
their cache or not.
DNT was another nail in the coffin. Either a browser can be tracked by
design, or it can't.
On 03/03/15 10:19, rysiek wrote:
> Dnia wtorek, 24 lutego 2015 21:23:29 grarpamp pisze:
>> After all, adblock isn't going to stop the ads. DNT isn't going to
>> stop the cookies.
>
> Hold on there. These are two different beasts. DNT is "please don't track me"
> and of course it won't work. Adblock is "I am not letting this through, deal
> with it" and has much more merit and chances of actually stopping stuff from
> getting to you.
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